Despite its name, soft maple is a more than adequate species for furniture, flooring, cabinets and other products.

So what do you do when faced with so many different wood species to choose from? You take the less overwhelming route and narrow down your choice to a remarkably versatile option: maple lumber.

Hard maple wood, Brown claims, is the ideal material for withstanding every day chopping, slicing, and dicing because of its ...

Hiroyuki Kato, an associate professor of mechanics and materials at Hokkaido University, has researched bat lumber. Maple is the hardest wood, followed by yellow birch and Japanese ash ...