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Wood Types

The beauty of handcrafted solid wood, the performance of sculpted countertops. Shamrock custom cabinetry embellishes every room in your home with the style and distinction of fine furniture. Each piece designed and crafted through the care and attention of skilled artisans.

Nature is very patient. It takes years upon years, season upon season, to create the natural beauty inherent in the grain of wood. We respect nature's patience and skill. Each piece of wood we use is intended to serve as a tribute to nature's artistic ability.

Each kind of wood has it's own distinctive qualities. To better understand these, take a look at the descriptions of each wood type we work with. For a more detailed description, click on a wood picture to better understand each wood type.

Ash

Birch

Black Walnut

Cherry

Hard Maple

Hickory & Pecan

Poplar

White Oak

Ash has very good overall strength properties relative to its weight. It has excellent shock resistance and is good for steam bending.

The wood of yellow birch is heavy, hard and strong. It has very good bending properties, with good crushing strength and shock resistance.

Walnut is a tough hardwood of medium density, with moderate bending and crushing strengths and low stiffness. It has a good steam-bending classification.

The wood is of medium density with good bending properties, it has low stiffness and medium strength and shock resistance.

The wood is hard and heavy with good strength properties, in particular its high resistance to abrasion and wear. It also has good steam-bending properties.

The density and strength of the hickories will vary according to the rate of growth, with the true hickories generally showing higher values than the pecan hickories.

A medium density wood with low bending, shock resistance, stiffness and compression values, with a medium steam-bending classification. Excellent strength and stability.

A hard and heavy wood with medium bending and crushing strength, low in stiffness, but very good in steam bending. Great wear-resistance.