Hickory (Carya spp)
Materials that promise to enhance performance proliferate new products, and this ‘performance enhancing’ label is one that anyone buying any type of consumer product can recognize. As a materials family, woods are not generally considered as being able to contribute much to these material stories in the way that those such as progressive and advanced carbon fibre or high-tech ceramics like alumina do, but in relation to natural materials hickory is ‘the’ performance timber.
Hickory is not strong and dependable in the way that oak is characterized, but more ‘high performance’ in a way that can be likened to sports performance. As testament to these high-performance characteristics, hickory has many applications in sports, largely ...
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