Australian Forest Woods (CSIRO Publishing, 2019), is the second book in this series by Morris Lake, following on from Australian Rainforest Woods (CSIRO Publishing, 2015), which was the cover story in AWR#88.
The first thing to note about these books is that both titles contain the word ‘woods’, rather than ‘trees’. The subtitle of both books is the same: ‘Characteristics, Uses and Identification’, again referring to the different woods, as well as the trees. In other words, both books are more than botany books, which usually have little or nothing to say about the wood produced by the various trees.
The correct identification of the various woods we deal with is likely to become increasingly important to us as woodworkers, as the cutting of the world’s forests becomes more political.…
