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One of the importances of selecting wood for your project would be, first most, you might
want a look, a certain kind of look in your home and you may want to have something, maybe,
in an eighteenth century style so you're going to end up going with mahogany's, and walnuts,
and maybe even cherry's, things like that. Curly maple's, that type of thing to adorn
your home the way you want to have it done. And if you do things, like, let's say you
wanted a more modern style of furniture, you might go with the maple's, the lighter woods,
curly maple's, that kind of thing that would give you a nice look for those kind of lighter
lines that you might want to have for your home. All the woods are very durable. The
only one that I would say is the least durable would be your pines, or softer woods, only
because they're easier to ding. Cherry is extremely hard. Probably harder than any of
the woods. But it depends on where you're going to use, what you're going to use it
for, what rooms you're going to use it, what kind of style your house is. If you're going
to use it out on a boat then you're going to be thinking about stuff like teaks and
mahogany's, you're going to want something that's impervious to rot. You don't want wood
that would quickly rot with you out in the salt. So I would tend to go with the teak's
or go with mahogany's when I was doing anything that had to be near water. Gates, like outdoor
gates, things like that, I would use mahogany on gates that we've built for like the Cornwallis
house downtown, we built all their exterior gates. Even though they were painted, we built
them out of mahogany, because we didn't want them to rot. And then you can use a wood treatment
on there that will also keep that wood impervious to your water