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Common Names
Bitter Pecan, Pecan, Pecan Hickory, Sweet Pecan
Common Uses
Fine Furniture, Paneling, Turnery, Dowells, Rustic Furniture, Kitchen Cabinets
Sapwood Color
The sapwood is white to pale brown in color.
Heartwood Color
The Heartwood is rich reddish brown in color, and may contain streaks of slightly darker hue.
Grain
Grain is reported to be typically straight, but may occasionally be irregular or wavy.
Cutting Resistance
The wood is reported to be rather diffucult to saw.
Planing
Pecan is reported to require careful machining, but it planes well, although a reduced cutting angle of 20 degrees is recommended in working stock with irregular grain.
Turning
The wood is characteristically very easy to turn.
Moulding
A reduced cutting angle of 20 degrees is required in moulding wood containing irregular grain.
Boring
Boring properties are reported to be very good.
Mortising
The wood has exceptional mortising properties.
Gluing
Gluing properties are reported to be satisfactory.
Nailing.
The material is reported to respond rather poorly to nailing.
Screwing
The wood is fairly easy to screw
Sanding
The timber is reported to require careful sanding to achieve the smoothest surface.
Polishing
The wood responds to polishing to yield a smooth finish.
Staining
The material takes stains well.
Steam Bending
Steam bending properties are reported to be generally good.
Strength Properties
Pecans can be differentiated from true Hickories by weight, and by the narrow bands of parenchyma, which appear between the rays and between the large earlywood pores.
(in hickories the band occurs after the first row of earlywood pores). Strength properties of C. illinoensisare reported to be similar to those of the hickories.
Bending strength in the air-dry condition ( about 12 percent moisture content) is high, and a maximum crushing strength, or compression strength parallel to grain, is also high. It is hard- harder than Teak, and does not mar or dent easly. The wood is very heavy!