72 - Densest Wood in the WORLD vs the Lightest! Exotic wood Showdown MUST SEE
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Watch the Densest wood and the Lightest wood in the WORLD both dropped into a tank of water. See the incredible difference in density between these two species as we weigh them on a balance!
Plus, this video will give you a close up look at some of the most amazing species of wood around our planet.
For a limited time, you can get set of wooden blocks, it's the “Wood Species of the World Collection.” It includes some extremely rare, expensive and hard to get species. This is a fantastic collectors display set. They are very tactile and fun to play with. You will be amazed by the great weight differences, even though they are all the same size. This collection includes the hardest wood in the world, the densest wood in the world, the lightest and least dense wood in the world and covers species found on four continents.
Some of these will even sink in water! This is a 16 piece set of wood blocks from around the world. It includes:
1-YELLOWHEART - from Brazil, in
South America
2-QUEBRACHO - from Argentina, in South America
3-COCOBOLO - from Central America
4-BUBINGA - from Equatorial Africa
5-BOCOTE - from Tropical Central America
6-SURINAM IRONWOOD - from Suriname, in South America
7-LIGNUM VITAE - from the Caribbean Islands in the Americas
8-AMERICAN BLACK WALNUT - from the Eastern United States
9-ROCK MAPLE - from Canada
10-PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY - from Southeast Asia
11-RED OAK - from Central United States
12-OSAGE ORANGE - from Oklahoma & Texas in the United States
13-AFRICAN PADAUK - from Tropical West Africa
14-PURPLEHEART- from Tropical Central America
15-BALSA WOOD - from Tropical America
16 - REDHEART - from Paraguay in South America
All blocks are made of solid 8/4 stock. (2” thick in the rough). Dressed and sanded they are about 1.75” x 1.75” x 1.75”.
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we have our own Borneo ironwood(terbelian) with density of 835-1,185 kg/m3, juz to let u know
Very educational! That’s the first time I’ve heard Sai talk. She’s so intelligent and a great builder too!
Harry M I’ve watched just about all of their videos. As a newbie I’ve learned so much. I get a bigger kick out of watching the girls build being that I’m one myself.😀
Hi Janine, thank you! She was very nervous! But she really wanted to do the video. Someday we’ll have to show off her collection of wood species. She loves science & woodworking both. And she has become a very good woodworker over the last several years.
King's Fine Woodworking I couldn’t tell she was nervous because she did an excellent job. I hope she has more speaking parts soon.😉 Who said older folk can’t learn from the young?
This is probably one of the coolest wood videos I've seen in a long time!
Hmmm... I'll bet there's at least 4 species in that collection that are NOT harvested, then transported down a river to the mill for processing! Fun video to watch... My granddaughters will enjoy this one for sure!
Nice video! I am from Argentina, the railway sleepers here in my country, in some parts of the country are still from QUEBRACHO, they are more than a hundred years old and they do not even rot, it is really impressive. One of the best woods in the world!
In my opinion this is one of the best demonstrations of wood properties I've seen yet. Thanks so much!
Hi from India. Simply loved this video. I am a writer and write a lot of woodworking articles. So, I found this video so interesting because I have written about most of the types of wood that you featured here. Extremely well-made video. Keep up the good work!
If you don't submit that for a science grade you will be missing out!
"The Only Difference Between Screwing Around and Science Is Writing It Down". By Adam Savage
Hi Drew! Well, I am a scientist. And I concur!! haha.
Thank you Sai and James for a very interesting and informative video
Great video as always!! It was an absolute pleasure to listen to Sai in this video. Keep up the great work King family!
Thanks for the demo, very informative
Thanks for the education on wood James and family. Love your videos!!
Wow, another incredible video. These educational videos are just what are needed. Thank you!
Awesome demonstration. Another great video. Thanks.
Very interesting! I love, in the beginning of the video, how Sai tries NOT to smile and look at the camera! LOL!! A star is born!! :)
I congratulate you for this exhibition of woods very educational and made was very good original and different ideas and the feminine touch of the Girl excellent and different
Congratulations greetings from Mexico
I have a new found fascination with wood. Sign that I´m getting old. I've always found woods intersting though. As a child in Cuba, I grew up around mahoagny and cedro furniture. Caoba (Cuban mahogany) is one of my favorite woods, and cedro (Cuban cedar, cedrela odorata) has the most amazing smell. It will give your home a characteristic smell that I still remember from my grand parents' house.
I just completed carving a hatchet handle out of Ipe by hand. What a chore that was. Turned out well for what it took to carve it. I won't try it again.
Very nice comparison. Interesting to see the differences. Nice work everyone!!
Thank you! Very cool! We specified Purple Heart Mahogany for our custom designed outdoor benches for signature looks. I worked on 3 waterfront park designs in Boston during 1980-1990 for Carol R. Johnson and Associates, Landscape Architects and Site Planners. Wish this video was available to us during those years- who knows what creative work it would have inspired!
As a son of a carpenter in the Philippines, I have seen lots of wood…rosewood/nara and ebony/ironwood are my favorite😊, however, it is getting harder and harder to get a hand on these woods so we sorted to mahogany and we kept pieces of furniture made from these woods for ourselves😂…the family shifted to working with aluminum windows, cabinets and upholstery 😅
Fun, interesting, and informative!
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Kudos James! This attests to your pedagogue skills! Not only did you manage to skillfully teach us about the different woods of the world but you we had a great opportunity to Sai in action! Thanks again and as always looking forward to your next production.
Thank you sir. That is very kind!
It was a very kind comment indeed ! Also just Karma.. So many people with so much love and respect for you James.I wonder why.. :)
That was fun! Thanks!
creative video. makes you think about the characteristics of different species of wood.
That was really cool and educational. Thanks.
Great lesson, you made this very interesting!Thank you
Hi Steven, Thank you!
Very useful and inspiring.
Very cool experiment! I was surprised by the balsa being able to float the lignum vitae!
Well done Sai , you did an amazing job .
That was fun!!
Very good demonstration
Wow some beautiful amazing species of wood there thanks for sharing james
You keep calling lignum vitae the densest in the world and you’re gonna hurt it’s feelings.
Love this! Wood working videos for nerds!
Another enjoyable video. I love that you and your family do this together.
With your top quality content, I can easily imagine your subscriber numbers skyrocketing in the not too distant future. Keep 'em coming.
Cheers.
Hi Sean, that is very kind! Thank you so much!
Interesting thing i found with yellow heart wood. It glows under a black light. I found this out when i was looking for the light switch in my shop and i had a black light in my pocket. I turned it on to find the switch and all of the sawdust from the yellow heart i cut the day before, lit up the shop under the black light.
Never knew playing with woods could be so fun... perhaps my new found hobby.
thank you wood is so pretty and so many colors
Fantastic presentation!
Hi Alfred, thank you!
Awesome learning about these exotic woods
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Great video and big up to Sai for speaking on camera!!!
I just saw this! I love it ❤️
What a neat demonstration 👍
You guys are so very smart 😀
I love Sai talking in this video ❤️
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Amazing video man !!!!!!
great info for wooden fishing lures makers
Very interesting, informative, and well presented, thanks
Thank you Chris!
This was cool!❤
Outstanding educational video. Not only learning about the different types of woods, and their densities, but a geography lesson as to where they come from throughout the world. Nice to see Sai in action and not just "photo-bombing,"........lol. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Nice . Fun to see .
What a great video! As usual very informative. Great to hear Sai, she is a lovely and intelligent young lady!
Hi! Thank you. Sai was so nervous, but she really wanted to do this video. I’m very happy she did, since she had a lot of fun!
Great video idea. Very interesting
Thats great !
Nice video. Something that would be interesting if you decide to make another would be to talk about hardness in addition to density.
Love it James! I thought it would be cool if you could possibly show pictures of the tree these come from!!
Excelente aula, sua filhinha é uma ótima professora. Parabéns a todos e obrigado por mais este vídeo. Abraços a toda família do Brasil
Very cool way to explain the density of woods. Great job King Family
Thank you very much!
Yep just watched it again lol.. That was a brilliant display and Sai's delivery was superb ! Balsa is 10x the density of Lignum.. The float test..! Awesome man and fact that I'm sitting here with the first full set of your blocks you have sent out makes me smile so much.I'm even wearing a 'Kings Comm' T-shirt right now.Great clip my brother
Most interesting video-very educational
Great video James...
I like the demo and love the explanations there is a density scale!
Thank you!
Very cool video!! Interesting to see how they act in water. 👍👍
Cool video guys, well put together and interesting...
Thank you!!
Awesome very very cool thank you
Hey there bud!! I enjoyed the video, it was very informative intriguingly interesting. I especially loved the water test, that was pretty awesome. I'm a newbie in the wood game, I just recently found myself very interested in rocks gems wood and various metals and paints
Nicely done Sai 👍🏻
I’d like to see a guitar body made up of those blocks of various species, that would look so cool; a possible future build maybe !
Very interesting video!!
Very cool James & Sai
Thank you Andrew!
Very informative
Oak is on of my faves. I know its a "simple wood" anyone can get but its very pretty
That was an interesting demonstration.
Thank you Don!
Very cool video! I'd be interested in seeing what would happen if they were all stuck together and put in the tank.
Awesome vid
James is a pro woodworker. Seems like he has a great family as well. I subscribed.
great presentation and explanation
Thank you!
interesting and great stuff
Great video!
I live in Bolivia, SA and we have Guayacaun, what you call Lignum Vitae (tree of life). It smells so good when you cut a little of it but after cutting it for a few days the smell starts to get to me. It makes beautiful furniture and doors but is mostly used in making small tourist items from what I have seen . I cut blanks for a couple hundred flutes one day but went through a few saw blades.
My favorite though, is Tajibo (some call it Ipe). Most of the things I make are made from this. It isn't as dense as Lignum but it doesn't float either. My other favorite is called Roble, which translates to Oak but is a lot lighter and oily. It also has a pleasant smell when cutting.
Hi Keni, that’s amazing. I wish we were able to directly import that wood from Bolivia. We love working with both Guayacaun, and Ipe! Thank you for sharing that info.
Very nice video, it's amazing to see woodworkers that love wood like you guys, and Sai is probably a better woodworker than the average Joe (me included), looking at this video, you have to realize that trees are the most important species on the planet, tree provides so much when alive; generating oxygen from bad gases, providing shelter and shade and housing for animals, holding the ground from erosion, providing material for building houses, furniture and more, used for tools, hunting, weapons, source of heat for humanity to warm us and preparing food... the list is almost endless... Thank God for Trees!!!
Ordered my set!
Looks like Sai has her science project completed already for this school year! Very cool video and a nice change of pace from seeing sawdust fly!
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Very cool James.
Thank you for sharing.
I still have some Mesquite and shoe string acacia (the hardest softwood at 1700 on the janka scale) to send to you.
Been waiting till it cools down a bit to mill some larger slabs up.
Sorry for the wait.
This was so interesting to watch!! New sub here
What a fun and interesting video. Thank you James for putting this together. Now I know why the Bocote I used for rolling pin rests ruined my cheap Sears router bit!
Hi Michael, some of those harder woods are brutal on blades and bits. We go through a lot of drill bits drilling the heads of our Thor’s Hammer Mallets. It really can add to the cost of a project.
exellent video. I made the cabinets for my house with bubinga and many tools with exotic woods, and a big table 7' x 4' x 3" t, with mesquite, thanks
I had no idea that there are types of wood that don't actually float. Mind blown! And your daughter is adorable btw.
Very cool guy that was very interesting thank you and take care guys
Hi Thom!! Thank you, very happy you liked it! :-)
Fascinating. I said 'wow' just a second before Sai 8:12 !
Most people plant hard woods but remember soft woods are necessary for those birds which live in hole nests.
Very cool---
Thank you!
From the sinking woods which would you recomend to try to make a fishing lure out of?
I dig it.
This was very interesting and educational. James are the cubes marked in some way in the “Wood Species of the World Collection" ? Thanks.
This was a very cool video! Very well put together, informational, and entertaining. Sai did a wonderful job as well. Very well spoken!
I had an uncle who had night sticks made of lignum vitae. A wonderful labor-saving device. One thump per person.
Do you also offer a moot stander wood blocks ? Make it easyer to match woods for when I'm making stuff .
James - really nice to see a visual demo of wood density, shows the differences. I have a fairly old woodworking manual that suggests a species called Brazil Wood is marginally denser than Lignum but I'm not sure what that is and suspect which piece of wood you test varies to the extent that the results are not entirely representative, so maybe it's not!
On Aruba we also have the axe breaker tree. Till this day the hardest wood I have personally have come across. Ow I forgot we call it kibrahacha. The papiamento name sounds almost identical, we say kibrahacha instead of quebrahacha. I did not expect to see that one in your list.
Very informative. Where does ebony stand among the dense woods.
What a GREAT demonstration of the different wood species. The float test in the tank is a real eye opener. I have a wide variety of unique exotics (e.g. Tropical Almond, Sapodilla) and other which I do not know the species. I bought the lot from a guy on Craigslist who had no idea of what a cache of wood treasures he had. What's your recommendation on a book which will identify the different species? Thank you for this video!
Hi, there are two that I love!
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Wood Identification might be a tiny bit better, but both are great!
Enjoyed seeing the better Si(de) of your videos... I know I'm to punny...
Was wondering if you've considered the density of AMERICAN BLACK LOCUST WOOD I've dulled many a chainsaw and wore out a sledgehammer and splitting wedges trying make fence post out of them.