On a recent Friday afternoon, Youfang Duan and Tim Victorio slowly drizzled a second coat of epoxy onto large slabs of milled and sanded poplar wood, then smoothed it out with small scrapers to make ...

Q How much shrinkage in drying should we see in yellow-poplar and Eastern cottonwood lumber? A This sounds like an easy question to answer -- all I have to do is look up the numbers in a book. But ...

Sponsored by: Northwest Hardwoods: Lumber that’s Graded For Yield®. Mappa burl, from the European poplar trees (Populus nigra to be exact), has grown more and more popular. It is often used in factory ...

Dear James: I went out to buy some lumber for some home projects. I was overwhelmed by the different kinds of lumber. What do the different grades and types of lumber mean? — Bobbi T. Dear Bobbi: ...