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KORENA listar 19 verifierade lövträplankor. Varje planka fotograferas och mäts före publicering, med bekräftat träslag, mått och ursprung, och skickas från partnerlager i EU.

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36 träslag

Odlat i EU9 i lager
Juglans regia
European Walnut
Warm chocolate-brown hardwood with straight to wavy grain. Works cleanly, finishes beautifully, and reads as the maker's wood across European studios.
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9 i lager · från 213,84 €
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Quercus robur
European Oak
The default European hardwood for furniture, joinery and architectural slabs. Open grain, calm colour, predictable behaviour at the bench.
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6 i lager · från 384,00 €
Import av hög kvalitet4 i lager
Samanea saman
Saman
Metre wide single piece slabs that stay flat, because it moves less than half as much as oak. The one tropical species KORENA lists.
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4 i lager · från 1 200,00 €
Pinus halepensis
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Pinus halepensis
Aleppo Pine
The pine of dry Mediterranean coasts. Irregular, resinous and awkward to machine, with the lowest measured shrinkage of anything KORENA lists.
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Prunus serotina
Black Cherry
The cabinet-maker's favourite. Easy to machine, ages beautifully into a deep reddish-brown.
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Robinia pseudoacacia
Black Locust / Robinia
Class 1 durability from a tree that grows in Europe. One of the only EU-native options that survives outdoors untreated, and a credible domestic answer to tropical exotics like teak.
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Pinus nigra
Black Pine
A pale timber from a dark tree. Works like Scots Pine, stays lighter with age, and moves less than any pine here.
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Populus nigra
Black Poplar
The lightest hardwood KORENA lists, and the one most often blamed for a fault that belongs to the blade.
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Juglans nigra
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Juglans nigra
Black Walnut
American Black Walnut is the chocolate-brown hardwood that built mid-century furniture. Imported into European yards as kiln-dried slabs, it works cleanly and finishes to a deep, warm tone that ages well.
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Juglans hindsii
Claro Walnut
California's figured walnut, and the wildest figure in the walnut family. Graft unions between English walnut and Hinds rootstock produce violet, gold and marbled patterns no other walnut can match.
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Pseudotsuga menziesii
Douglas Fir
Not a fir, and the stiffest softwood KORENA lists. Bold orange ring figure, structural strength, and a splinter you do not want to ignore.
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Ulmus procera
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Ulmus procera
English Elm
Rare salvaged hardwood with interlocked grain, wild figure, and exceptional steam-bending behaviour. Hard-won material with genuine craft heritage.
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Fraxinus excelsior
European Ash
Pale, ring-porous hardwood with bold grain and the best steam-bending behaviour in Europe. Strong and tough, but strictly interior use.
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Fagus sylvatica
European Beech
The workshop workhorse. Pale, dense, fine-textured hardwood with straight grain, and the wood that bends.
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Prunus avium
European Cherry
A refined cabinet wood with fine, even grain that ages from pinkish-tan to a deep reddish-brown.
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Larix decidua
European Larch
The one European softwood that will sit outside untreated, and the most decorative of the group. Hardest conifer KORENA lists, at the cost of fighting resin at every stage.
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Pyrus communis
European Pear
Master-grade carving and cabinet wood with a fine even texture. Slab-size pieces are rare and prized when they appear.
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Taxus baccata
European Yew
Rare, culturally significant, and exceptionally durable. Dramatic orange-red heartwood against cream sapwood, and the wood of the English longbow.
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Abies cephalonica
Greek Fir
A Greek mountain endemic with almost no published property data. Bought for provenance and rarity rather than performance figures.
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Acer saccharum
Hard Maple
The canonical butcher-block and kitchen-island wood. Pale, dense, food-safe, and hard-wearing. North American import, long established as a furniture-grade species through European channels.
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Carpinus betulus
Hornbeam
Pale, ruthlessly dense, and famously hard. The wood old joiners reached for when they needed plane bodies, mallet heads, and water-mill cogs that would not give up.
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Platanus × acerifolia
London Plane
Quartersawn London Plane reveals lacewood: large medullary rays catch the light in dense, scaly flecks. The slab's signature, and its whole reason for being on this list.
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Pinus pinaster
Maritime Pine
The pine of the Atlantic coast and the Landes. The most resinous and least stable wood KORENA lists, with a bold coarse figure that suits rustic work.
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Picea abies
Norway Spruce
The most abundant conifer in Europe and the lightest slab material KORENA lists. Pale, even, easy at the bench, and soft enough that you should choose it deliberately.
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Quercus rubra
Red Oak
Harder than European oak and cheaper, with pores open enough to blow air through. An interior wood, and only an interior wood.
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Pinus sylvestris
Scots Pine
The most widely distributed pine on earth and the most forgiving wood in this catalogue to build with. Soft, knotty, and it ambers into something far better than it starts as.
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Quercus petraea
Sessile Oak
The other European oak. Sold beside Quercus robur without distinction, straighter grown, and slightly the better board for long clean lengths.
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Betula pendula
Silver Birch
Harder than oak and stiffer than anything else KORENA lists, hiding behind a plain pale face. The best turning wood here.
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Abies alba
Silver Fir
Spruce without the resin. The softest species in the KORENA catalogue, and the best softwood here for a painted finish.
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Tilia cordata
Small-leaved Lime
The carving wood of Europe since the Gothic period. Uniform to the point of having no character at all, which is exactly the point.
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Castanea sativa
Sweet Chestnut
A lighter, softer cousin of oak. Tannin-rich heartwood gives it real durability outdoors, but those same tannins react with iron, so fixings need to be stainless or brass.
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Pinus cembra
Swiss Stone Pine
Alpine Zirbe. Chosen for its scent and its dense scatter of small dark knots rather than for any number on a strength table.
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Acer pseudoplatanus
Sycamore Maple
Pale, lustrous European hardwood with a creamy near-white surface. Often quartersawn to bring out ray fleck, and prized in curly form for violin and cello backs.
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Quercus cerris
Turkey Oak
Harder than European oak and considerably cheaper, for one reason: it is difficult to dry. Buy it already stable and it is a bargain.
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Quercus alba
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Quercus alba
White Oak
American white oak (Quercus alba) is a closed-pore hardwood with straight grain, coarse texture, and one of the best steam-bending records of any commercial species.
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Sorbus torminalis
Wild Service Tree
Probably the hardest wood in this catalogue, and certainly the rarest. Known in France as alisier and treated there as a fine fruitwood.
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