Common Uses: flooring, boatbuilding, lumber, veneer, furniture, cabinetry, musical instruments (piano pin blocks), plywood, and turned objects.
Comments: Beech is an essential and widely-used hardwood in Europe. Its hardness, wear-resistance, durability, and excellent bending capabilities—coupled with its cheap price—make this hardwood a mainstay for numerous European woodworkers. Depending on soil requirements, European Beech can grow to enormous sizes, and wide, long lumber is commonly available for use.
Workability: Overall outstanding workability; it machines great, and glues, finishes, and turns well. Beech also answers superbly to steam-bending. It does, however, have a large number of movement in service, so action and wood stability need be taken into account.