Beech shelves made to measure

Create order and order shelves made of solid wood from Pickawood UK. In this case, it is beech, which is incredibly popular for furniture construction. This beech shelf adapts to your wishes and your living space by being made to measure.

Shelves made of beech: advantages of this type of wood

In Europe, beech wood comes mainly from the copper beech (Fagus sylvatica), which is very common in our native forests: In western Germany, 16 % of the total forest area is beech forests or mixed forests with a very high proportion of beech. This also means for you that the wood of these shelves comes from very sustainable forestry. There are no long transport routes. In Germany, around seven million cubic metres of beech wood are felled every year, which corresponds to about one sixth of the total timber harvest. Beech is undoubtedly one of the most important timber species. This does not surprise our cabinetmakers, because the tree grows straight in the stand, its trunk is fully woody with a very long and knot-free shaft. This is what counts when building furniture with solid wood. The knot-free trunk lengths of beech trees can grow up to 15 m high, which makes for very beautiful long boards for shelves. Beech trunks can also reach a diameter of up to 2.0 m, so that we can make very wide shelving boards from this solid wood. In practice, however, these widths are rarely achieved because the beech trees, which can live up to 300 years, are usually felled after 100 to 135 years. Then their trunks are up to about 50 cm thick, which is still more than enough for use as solid wood. You will love a sideboard or shelf made of beech for its colouring: Red beech trees are heartwood trees with an intense colour gradient in the core. In places, the heartwood and sapwood appear uniformly reddish-white, but sometimes we find a highly colour-intensive reddish-brown core, the so-called red heart. This is mainly found in trees that are over 120 years old. Accordingly, they are the favourites for solid wood shelving. The other markings of beech wood are also very beautiful, with even annual rings and pore-free longitudinal surfaces. One characteristic of beech wood is the conspicuous wood rays. They run radially as flat mirrors and tangentially as spindles.

Beech as a solid wood with the highest load-bearing capacity.

Beech wood is dense and very hard. The raw density is 720 kg/m³, and the load-bearing capacity and durability are roughly equivalent to that of oak. Also, the density is internally very homogeneous, which means that the boards of these shelves will not accidentally break at any point. This strength and toughness of beech wood is what makes it so popular as construction and furniture wood. Our carpenters treat it carefully before it is made into a shelf. The drying process requires patience and is accompanied by steaming. This improves the possibility of processing by bending, peeling and slicing. We can easily cut, plane, mill, drill and sand beech wood. Carvers and woodturners love to make objects of art out of it. Its bending capacity after steaming almost reaches that of ash wood. Nailed and screwed, a beech wood shelf lasts for what feels like eternity: You will possibly pass it on. The gluing strength is also considered excellent, and the surfaces can be polished, dyed, stained and lacquered excellently. This means: you can order your beech wood shelf from Pickawood UK in any desired colouring and surface design (lacquered or unlacquered).