Wood hardness charts

Arranged by Hardness - Low to High

Species Janka Hardness
Balsa 100
Aspen 350
Western Red Cedar 350
Eastern White Pine 380
Basswood 410
White Pine 420
Cottonwood 430
Hemlock 500
Chestnut 540
Yellow Poplar 540
Alder 590
Larch 590
So. Yellow Pine (loblolly & short leaf) 660 - 690
Douglas Fir 660
So. Yellow Pine (longleaf) 690 - 870
Shedua 710
Sycamore 770
Honduran Mahogany 800
Elm 830
Lacewood, Leopardwood 840
Leopardwood 840
Gum 850
Black Cherry 870 - 950
Hackberry 880
Cedar 900
Paper Birch 910
Boire 940
Teak 950 - 1000
Cherry 950
Imbuia 950
North American Cherry 950
Soft Maple 950
Sakura 995
Black Walnut 1000 - 1010
Heart Pine 1010 - 1225
North American Walnut 1010
Boreal 1023
Makore 1100
Alpine Ash 1102
Heritage Oak 1102
Brazilian Eucalyptus / Rose Gum 1125
Rose Gum 1125
Cocobolo 1136
True Teak 1155
Carbonized Bamboo 1180
Green Ash 1,200
Iroko - Kambala 1225
Movingui 1230
Red Oak 1260 - 1290
Yellow Birch 1260
Carribean Heart Pine 1280
American Beech 1290 - 1300
Angelique Teak 1290
Ash 1300
Beech 1,300
White Oak 1320 - 1360
Ash (White) 1320
White Ash 1320
Ribbon Gum 1349
Tasmanian Oak 1350
Australian Cypress 1360 - 1375
Hard Maple / Sugar Maple 1375 - 1450
Natural Bamboo 1380
Coffee Bean 1390
Coffee Bean 1390
Caribbean Walnut 1400
Brazilian Maple 1450 - 1500
North American Maple 1450
Sugar Maple 1450
Sweet Birch 1470
Curupixa 1490
Zebrawood 1500 - 1575
Sapele / Sapelli 1510
Kambala 1540
Peroba 1557
Timborana 1570
True Pine, Timborana 1570
Wenge, Red Pine 1575 - 1630
Tualang 1624
Kempas 1630 - 1710
Red Pine 1630
Highland Beech 1686
Rose River Gum 1686
Locust 1700
African Padauk 1710 - 1725
Merbau 1712 - 1925
Blackwood 1720
Bamboo 1725
Rosewood 1780
Bangkirai 1798
Hickory / Pecan, Satinwood 1800 - 1820
Afzelia / Doussie 1810
Doussie 1810
Purpleheart 1820 - 1860
Pecan 1820
Satinwood 1820
Tigerwood/Goncalo Alves 1850 - 2135
Goncalo Alves / Tigerwood 1850
Jarrah 1860 - 1910
Amendoim 1912
Sydney Blue 1925
Tallowwood 1933
Cameron 1940
Bubinga 1980
Karri 2023 - 2030
Brushbox 2023 - 2135
Sydney Blue Gum 2023
Australian Beech 2046
Santos Mahogany, Bocote, Cabreuva 2160 - 2200
Asian Rosewood 2170
Pradoo 2170
Mesquite 2200 - 2345
Bocote 2200
Cabreuva 2200
Mahogany 2200
Caribbean Rosewood 2300
Brazilian Cherry (Jatoba) 2345 - 2820
Spotted Gum 2350 - 2473
Jatoba 2350
Bloodwood 2473 - 2900
Red Mahogany, Turpentine 2697
Turpentine, Red Mahogany 2697
Tiete Rosewood 2900
Brazilian Rosewood (Tamarindo) 3000
Angelim Pedra 3040
Bolivian Cherry (Cerezo) 3190
Brazilian Redwood / Paraju 3190
Paraju 3190
Ebony 3220
Brazilian Teak (Cumaru) 3540
Cumaru / Brazilian Teak 3540
Brazilian Walnut (Ipe) 3620 - 3684
Ipe / Brazilian Walnut / Lapacho 3684
Lapacho 3684
Snakewood 3800
Lignum Vitae 4500

Alphabetical Listing

Species Janka Hardness
African Padauk 1710 - 1725
Afzelia / Doussie 1810
Alder 590
Alpine Ash 1102
Amendoim 1912
American Beech 1290 - 1300
Angelim Pedra 3040
Angelique Teak 1290
Ash 1300
Ash (White) 1320
Asian Rosewood 2170
Aspen 350
Australian Beech 2046
Australian Cypress 1360 - 1375
Balsa 100
Bamboo 1725
Bangkirai 1798
Basswood 410
Beech 1,300
Black Cherry 870 - 950
Black Walnut 1000 - 1010
Blackwood 1720
Bloodwood 2473 - 2900
Bocote 2200
Boire 940
Bolivian Cherry (Cerezo) 3190
Boreal 1023
Brazilian Cherry (Jatoba) 2345 - 2820
Brazilian Eucalyptus / Rose Gum 1125
Brazilian Maple 1450 - 1500
Brazilian Redwood / Paraju 3190
Brazilian Rosewood (Tamarindo) 3000
Brazilian Teak (Cumaru) 3540
Brazilian Walnut (Ipe) 3620 - 3684
Brushbox 2023 - 2135
Bubinga 1980
Cabreuva 2200
Cameron 1940
Carbonized Bamboo 1180
Caribbean Rosewood 2300
Caribbean Walnut 1400
Carribean Heart Pine 1280
Cedar 900
Cherry 950
Chestnut 540
Cocobolo 1136
Coffee Bean 1390
Coffee Bean 1390
Cottonwood 430
Cumaru / Brazilian Teak 3540
Curupixa 1490
Douglas Fir 660
Doussie 1810
Eastern White Pine 380
Ebony 3220
Elm 830
Goncalo Alves / Tigerwood 1850
Green Ash 1,200
Gum 850
Hackberry 880
Hard Maple / Sugar Maple 1375 - 1450
Heart Pine 1010 - 1225
Hemlock 500
Heritage Oak 1102
Hickory / Pecan, Satinwood 1800 - 1820
Highland Beech 1686
Honduran Mahogany 800
Imbuia 950
Ipe / Brazilian Walnut / Lapacho 3684
Iroko - Kambala 1225
Jarrah 1860 - 1910
Jatoba 2350
Kambala 1540
Karri 2023 - 2030
Kempas 1630 - 1710
Lacewood, Leopardwood 840
Lapacho 3684
Larch 590
Leopardwood 840
Lignum Vitae 4500
Locust 1700
Mahogany 2200
Makore 1100
Merbau 1712 - 1925
Mesquite 2200 - 2345
Movingui 1230
Natural Bamboo 1380
North American Cherry 950
North American Maple 1450
North American Walnut 1010
Paper Birch 910
Paraju 3190
Pecan 1820
Peroba 1557
Pradoo 2170
Purpleheart 1820 - 1860
Red Mahogany, Turpentine 2697
Red Oak 1260 - 1290
Red Pine 1630
Ribbon Gum 1349
Rose Gum 1125
Rose River Gum 1686
Rosewood 1780
Sakura 995
Santos Mahogany, Bocote, Cabreuva 2160 - 2200
Sapele / Sapelli 1510
Satinwood 1820
Shedua 710
Snakewood 3800
So. Yellow Pine (loblolly & short leaf) 660 - 690
So. Yellow Pine (longleaf) 690 - 870
Soft Maple 950
Spotted Gum 2350 - 2473
Sugar Maple 1450
Sweet Birch 1470
Sycamore 770
Sydney Blue 1925
Sydney Blue Gum 2023
Tallowwood 1933
Tasmanian Oak 1350
Teak 950 - 1000
Tiete Rosewood 2900
Tigerwood/Goncalo Alves 1850 - 2135
Timborana 1570
True Pine, Timborana 1570
True Teak 1155
Tualang 1624
Turpentine, Red Mahogany 2697
Wenge, Red Pine 1575 - 1630
Western Red Cedar 350
White Ash 1320
White Oak 1320 - 1360
White Pine 420
Yellow Birch 1260
Yellow Poplar 540
Zebrawood 1500 - 1575
 
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