"AArDvarK" wrote in message news:gf9ic.20249$432.1602@fed1read01...
Anyone who knows please ... what is the hardest damn
wood that exists on the face of this entire planet ... ?
The hardest wood known to man currently and through-
out known history (if that applies of course) ?

Alex
This is a janka hardness table from
http://www.precisecut.com/reference/...ness_table.htm


The higher the number the harder the wood

Douglas Fir 660
So. Yellow Pine (loblolly & short leaf) 690
So. Yellow Pine (longleaf) 870
Black Cherry 950
Teak 1000
Black Walnut 1010
Heart Pine 1225
Yellow Birch 1260
Red Oak (Northern) 1290
American Beech 1300
Ash 1320
White Oak 1360
Australian Cypress 1375
Hard Maple 1450
Wenge 1630
African Pedauk 1725
Hickory/Pecan 1820
Purpleheart 1860
Jarrah 1910
Merbau 1925
Santos Mahogany 2200
Mesquite 2345
Brazilian Cherry 2350
Brazilian Ebony 3692