100% French hornbeam

100% French hornbeam certified "Bois de France

Our logs are made from hornbeam "butt" wood. We source exclusively from France, mainly from the Jura and Doubs regions. We select our suppliers with care. Wood has always been the material of choice for furniture makers. Renowned for its sturdiness, end grain wood withstands all shocks and blows from the blade. As these are applied in the direction of the wood grain, the cutting surface cannot chip or break.

Our woods

We mainly use hornbeam for our logs, and beech for the belts and base. The hornbeam is sourced exclusively in France, while the beech is over 80% PEFC-certified in Germany.

• Hornbeam is a tree of the Betulaceae family (Alder, Birch, and Hornbeam), and is a difficult wood to split because of its slow growth. It can be made into butcher logs, workbenches, yokes or wheel hubs. Its dense, marcescent foliage (which does not fall in autumn) can be confused with that of beech. To differentiate between them, there is a little saying :

      "Adam's charm is to be naked." (Translate: charm has teeth, beech has hair)

• The beech tree (or beech tree, fawn, beech tree, Fagus sylvatica), is a tree of the family Fagaceae because the fruit is maintained in a "cup".

(Chestnut, Oak, Beech). In "standing wood" (not cut), they are made into butcher's logs. Beech wood can be turned (toys, chair legs), stained and polished. Because of its homogeneity, beech wood was much used by woodworkers, turners, manufacturers of complex parts. It was also used to make the old clothes pegs of our grandmothers, before the invasion of polymers. Today, it is exploited in joinery (furniture, parquet floors) on condition that it is dried with care (tendency to shrink). Beech is used in 14% of the furniture made in France, just behind oak. Beech covers 9% of the French forest, behind oak and Scots pine.