Fir, silver Fir
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The fir is a coniferous tree species native to Central and Southern Europe. It is best known for its use as a Christmas tree, although spruce is sometimes used for this purpose as well. Fir and spruce are very similar, and their wood is difficult to distinguish from one another, although fir does not form resin pockets.
Fir wood is used as construction timber, as blind wood in furniture making, and for musical instruments. The wood is yellowish-white to reddish-white in color, with a straight grain, fine texture, and sharply defined annual rings. The heartwood and sapwood are not clearly separated, and there is hardly any discoloration of the heartwood. With a density of 0.45 g/cm3, fir wood is quite light. It is also soft and easily attacked by insects.Fir is easy and clean to work with using any tools, producing very smooth surfaces compared to spruce and preventing contamination of tools due to the absence of resin pockets.
It dries very quickly, which can cause severe cracking in the heartwood, but there is no great risk of warping.
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Translated from German to English via AI (DeepL).
Sources:
Fritz Kohl, 2012, „Furniere“, Seite 57Begemann, Helmut F., 1962, Lexikon der Nutzhölzer, Seite 773
Bilder: "Templin Furnier e.K."