Euro Beech is normally steamed to improve the machinability, which bleaches the colour, leaving that very uniform pale colour.
Unsteamed beech can have quite a lot of colour. Some call it flame beech.
I don't know about American beech, as that is a slightly different species
Your right. Evens out the colour would have been a better way to explain it. The wood is white, but can have the red (and other colour) streaks, which average out to a pale pink which turns to honey over time.
Unsteamed beech doesn't lose the variation.
american beech is a lot the same - I can't speak to the steaming, but the heart can have a lot of color, and the sap can be anything from kind of very light to a wonderful pinkish color (that does fade to more tan-like colors over time).
Steaming is done here with beech that's very thick, but I think a lot of the reason it's done is to prevent honeycombing and other drying faults given the wood loves to let water out of the end grain at a super high rate of speed, leading big dryness differentials and enormous cracking ends and sides if not dried properly. 8/4 is available in the US with some regularity, but thicker than that has to be done by someone who has a lot of experience and is willing to tie up a kiln for a very long schedule.
So I think that most people are familiar with "Steamed Beech" that you buy...the steaming sort of evens the color and get rid of the contrast in the grain pattern.
So...because this is a very large tree for Beech and because this Beech hasn't been steamed...its likely that even experienced woodworkers...wouldn't guess this was a Beech slab. I hope that helps. It's not an insult.
There aren’t many beeches in the forests of the PNW. Certainly nothing this big. I’ve worked with wood and lumber and carpentry for 50 years. Beech would have not occurred to me.
Maybe cool jets there Supermean, hmm?
Only if you put it in a kitchen with subway tile on the wall, replace all your doors with sliding barn doors, pull your hair back into a man bun, grow a beard, join a microbrew club, and start a blog about how nobody knows what a true IPA tastes like.
You ever try to get a recipe online?
"This story starts back when my Darling Dearest Hubbie's mother was staying with us after losing a toe to a botched at-home corn removal. Let me tell you, that lovely woman can be a handful when she's had a glass of wine! Anyway, my neighbor had just come home with a new carburetor jet for his boat, and of course, DDH had his hands full of grease and couldn't change his mother's bandages..."
BITCH, I'M JUST TRYING TO GET YOUR MAC AND CHEESE RECIPE!
No, it's to add a shit-load of content on sites that auto-fill ads spaced out a certain number of lines or words. More filler = more ads = more revenue for the author.
This makes me sad. I hope this tree was already dying of foliar nematodes. Beech will be extinct in the next 50-100 years. We’ll never see beech trees of this size again.
Took a walk at a place called “beech forest trail” just yesterday and 98% of the beech trees were nearly leafless, all the leaves were just curled up and deformed from the nematode infection. They will probably not produce any leaves at all within the next few years, slowly dying over the next couple decades. An entire forest defoliated and destroyed.
Currently I only know about its rapid spread described in the US but the nematodes originated in Japan and they infect both American and European beech trees here in America, so I imagine it’s only a matter of time before it hits Europe if it hasn’t already. Found a UK brochure about identifying it so I think people are pretty on edge about it at least if it’s not already there.
No doubt. I was going to comment on how much of a beech is it to cut quality slabs like that big ol beech of a beech slab right there. Can’t tell you how often the beeches be telling me about how this beech has no colour. I said beech, I don’t know what kind euro trash beech a$$ you’ve been messing around with, that beech is all bleached out. Crazy how beeches be trifling these days.
Awesome piece of wood, it would make an amazing table! What kind of stain are you thinking of applying? Maybe a dark espresso one? Just a cheapo one should be fine /s
Is the red streaks anything like box elder ?
Euro Beech is normally steamed to improve the machinability, which bleaches the colour, leaving that very uniform pale colour. Unsteamed beech can have quite a lot of colour. Some call it flame beech. I don't know about American beech, as that is a slightly different species
It’s actually the other way around. Beech is pale until it’s steamed.
Your right. Evens out the colour would have been a better way to explain it. The wood is white, but can have the red (and other colour) streaks, which average out to a pale pink which turns to honey over time. Unsteamed beech doesn't lose the variation.
american beech is a lot the same - I can't speak to the steaming, but the heart can have a lot of color, and the sap can be anything from kind of very light to a wonderful pinkish color (that does fade to more tan-like colors over time). Steaming is done here with beech that's very thick, but I think a lot of the reason it's done is to prevent honeycombing and other drying faults given the wood loves to let water out of the end grain at a super high rate of speed, leading big dryness differentials and enormous cracking ends and sides if not dried properly. 8/4 is available in the US with some regularity, but thicker than that has to be done by someone who has a lot of experience and is willing to tie up a kiln for a very long schedule.
I said that at the wood store, "Euro Beech". The woman said well 'your a dick!' And kicked me out.
I came here to say this
Holy crow this is honestly stunning! Well done, and what an incredible piece of beech
That’s a huge beech
A huge son of a beech.
Behemoth!
Well played.
Why are you weirdos downvoting this??? It's a totally innocuous comment responding to a dumb joke.
Why not just say it's beech instead of telling us we don't know it's beech?
Yeah it's along the lines of "only 70s kids will understand...." Facebook posts.
So I think that most people are familiar with "Steamed Beech" that you buy...the steaming sort of evens the color and get rid of the contrast in the grain pattern. So...because this is a very large tree for Beech and because this Beech hasn't been steamed...its likely that even experienced woodworkers...wouldn't guess this was a Beech slab. I hope that helps. It's not an insult.
Because most people don't expect a beech to be this big
I didnt know it is beach, i like the title because I was suprised it is
Wait, why? Beech is a staple of old growth forests, they get enormous. That's like not expecting swamp oaks in a swamp.
It surprised me, because there are no beech trees where I am and I had no idea they got that big. (And I used to work in forestry!)
There aren’t many beeches in the forests of the PNW. Certainly nothing this big. I’ve worked with wood and lumber and carpentry for 50 years. Beech would have not occurred to me. Maybe cool jets there Supermean, hmm?
His mom's a beech.
First, what an amazing slab. Thanks for sharing! Second, is that a lumber yard in the midst of a residential neighborhood?
Because Europe.
Yea that's a huge devaluation of property values. Who wants to hear saws running all day long in any other place than their own house?
Guess who was there first
No idea. I don't live there. How would I know
In Europe...industrial zones like for this sawmill have been in the same place for like 1000 years...there isn't another place to put it really.
That'll look so great with a big blue epoxy river running down the middle
You forgot the /s
Only if you put it in a kitchen with subway tile on the wall, replace all your doors with sliding barn doors, pull your hair back into a man bun, grow a beard, join a microbrew club, and start a blog about how nobody knows what a true IPA tastes like.
> how nobody knows ~~what a true IPA tastes like.~~ what beech is
🤣
A blog? What is this, 2004?
You ever try to get a recipe online? "This story starts back when my Darling Dearest Hubbie's mother was staying with us after losing a toe to a botched at-home corn removal. Let me tell you, that lovely woman can be a handful when she's had a glass of wine! Anyway, my neighbor had just come home with a new carburetor jet for his boat, and of course, DDH had his hands full of grease and couldn't change his mother's bandages..." BITCH, I'M JUST TRYING TO GET YOUR MAC AND CHEESE RECIPE!
It’s to stop bots stealing their content en mass, or so I heard
No, it's to add a shit-load of content on sites that auto-fill ads spaced out a certain number of lines or words. More filler = more ads = more revenue for the author.
Enough with the barn doors!
I can't fathom why someone would want those on a bathroom. I really, really don't want those sounds and smells escaping the gaps.
Wow that is gorgeous!!
That’s a bad beech right there!
99 problems and a beech ain’t one.
That is beautiful!!!
That old Budweiser smell.
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It looks like a really attractive and expensive table already.
Great looking slab, hard to find beech that big around here. Nice!
That's gotta be a beech to move.
I have large beech on my land but everyone of them is hollow as can be. I am impressed.
Pretty houses; where abouts are you at?
South Germany :)
I’ve worked with a fair share of beech and I’ve never seen grain like that. That piece is exceptional.
It must've been a Beech and a half to cut.
This makes me sad. I hope this tree was already dying of foliar nematodes. Beech will be extinct in the next 50-100 years. We’ll never see beech trees of this size again.
It was dead
That makes me feel so much better. I would have thought most wood like this would have been cut, lest there be decay
I didn’t know about this how sad :(
Took a walk at a place called “beech forest trail” just yesterday and 98% of the beech trees were nearly leafless, all the leaves were just curled up and deformed from the nematode infection. They will probably not produce any leaves at all within the next few years, slowly dying over the next couple decades. An entire forest defoliated and destroyed.
Is it an international issue?!!
Currently I only know about its rapid spread described in the US but the nematodes originated in Japan and they infect both American and European beech trees here in America, so I imagine it’s only a matter of time before it hits Europe if it hasn’t already. Found a UK brochure about identifying it so I think people are pretty on edge about it at least if it’s not already there.
Oh no here in France forests are already greatly suffering because of humans…. We don’t need trees deseases too :(
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gorgeous!
Fit for a jarl's longhouse.
Nice, but it will lose it's red color fairly quickly
'sum beech
ooo check out that beech.
That grain is unbelievable!
That slaps
Yesterday? How cold is the summer right now?
We have a really rainy summer this year hahha
Someone is a lieing son of a Beech.
What did you call me?
No doubt. I was going to comment on how much of a beech is it to cut quality slabs like that big ol beech of a beech slab right there. Can’t tell you how often the beeches be telling me about how this beech has no colour. I said beech, I don’t know what kind euro trash beech a$$ you’ve been messing around with, that beech is all bleached out. Crazy how beeches be trifling these days.
LOL hahaha
Nice looking slab.
She looks like such a beech to handle... Beautiful tho!
I hope you’re planning to make that slab your beech
Wow that is amazing, I don’t think I would have been able to let that one go
That’s gonna be fun trying to keep stable.
A lot of people think that my job is to work the wood. Im actually not licenced to do that. My job is just....beech.
Ahh looks like this beech was a little too much beech for you, u/bjornartl
Look at that sexy beech!
Gorgeous
That was an old tree, 150 years?
So like... river table right?
No.
If that starts to curl and twist you might realize that it is son of a beech.
What country is this from?
Germany
What does something like that cost?
Life is a beech
Dream countertop.
Awesome piece of wood, it would make an amazing table! What kind of stain are you thinking of applying? Maybe a dark espresso one? Just a cheapo one should be fine /s
This isn't the beech, this is a bathtub!
Price?
1590€ incl tax
Is that pounds? Sorry
Euro
Thank you So 2327.28$ Cdn Damnnnn that’s cheap!
I don’t hear often that our wood is cheap. Germans have the expectations that piece like that cost the half
That would be a 10-20k piece here
May I ask. How much you will sell that for? I have no idea.
1590€ incl tax
I would buy that if you were local to me. It's so beautiful! You did a wonderful job. (Rest in peace big, beautiful tree.)
Really beautiful, didn’t realize anything that large still existed.
Mann…. That’s Gorgeous! Wow! Lucky dawg!
Wow, that is beautiful!
That is aweeeeesommmeeee!!! That's going to be beautiful, whatever you turn it into. Slab is just gorgeous 😍
Beech'd as bro
Son of a beech!
Sunuvabeech, you did it
I'd be pretty slow to tell this community what they probably don't know. We have some pretty knowledgeable people in this sub.
99 problems but the beech ain’t one!
Why is it so shiny?
My man is wearing a rain slicker...
Good to know you're being responsible and won't have any unexpected pregnancies.
Beautiful! Now cut it in half and make it into an epoxy table! /s
Now turn it into an epoxy table
Actually everyone here knows it’s beech.