American Ash – Sawn – 2 sizes

Supplied rough-sawn. The main images show the dressed face so you can see the grain this board brings up. It ships rough-sawn (second image), ready to dress to your finished size.

Supplied rough-sawn — this timber ships undressed. The smooth, pale face in the main photos is this same board dressed, shown so you can see the grain you’ll bring up. It arrives in its rough-sawn state (second image), ready for you to dress back to your finished size.

These american ash boards end up in the handle of every tool worth keeping. American Ash is the trade’s go-to for anything that takes a hammering — axe handles, oars, hockey sticks — because it bends and springs back instead of snapping. This parcel is old stock — it sat in the back of the shed for many years before we recovered it and got it ready to sell; it’s limited while stocks last.

What it is. American Ash is the trade name for Fraxinus americana — White Ash in its home market. It’s a ring-porous hardwood with a long history in sporting goods and tool handles, prized for strength-to-weight that few other hardwoods match.

What you’d make with these american ash boards.

• Tool and axe handles — the timber’s original job
• Furniture framing that needs to flex under load
• Staircase treads and joinery
• Cabinet interiors and drawer sides

Working notes

• Density: ~670 kg/m³ — medium, with a strength-to-weight ratio well above its density class
• Hardness: ~6.0 kN Janka — firm but not punishing on tools
• Grain: straight, open and prominent — reads clean under an oil finish
• Surface: Supplied rough-sawn — dress one face true before templating or glue-up.
• Working: machines cleanly, takes screws and glue well, bends under steam
• Finishing: takes Danish oil evenly

What cabinetmakers say about it. American Ash is the timber Louisville Slugger built its bat business on, and joiners reach for it wherever a component takes repeated stress rather than sitting still.

The stack it came from. These american ash boards are old stock — they sat in the back of the shed for many years before we recovered them and got them ready to sell — solid American Ash doesn’t come through often, and this is a limited parcel. Browse our American Ash stock or the wider sawn timber range. Once it goes, the listing closes.