SPRUCE - EUROPEAN

Botanic name: Picea abies (= Picea exelsa)

Family: Pinaceae

Grows: Europe, North-Siberia

Volume weight: 0,45

Other names: Baltic whitewood, whitewood, common spruce, European spruce, white deal.

Usage: Soundboards, fan struts and cross-bars. Also used as kernel for veneerd necks of lutes and baroque guitars. Somtimes used for glue blocks and endblock.

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Last modified: April 17, 2006, © John J. van Gool