Advantages and Disadvantages of Natural Woods

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Natural Woods

Advantages

  • Readily available
  • Easy to cut and shape
  • Relatively inexpensive
  • Aesthetically pleasing
  • Feels good - is tactile

Disadvantages

  • Irregular properties : no two trees are the same
  • Grain varies
  • Stronger in some places than others
  • knots - wood is hard and condensed
  • hygroscopic - absorbs and releases water (makes it shrink swell and warp)
  • Wood worm can occur

Evaluation

There are advantages to using natural woods however there are also many disadvantages. 

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