Quicker to use than the U.S. Forest Products Lab (Center for Wood Anatomy Research) website, which has a page for each species. Summarizes the above info on one page for specific gravity (weight), elasticity, impact resistance, hardness, and resistance to splitting.
http://woodworkweb.com/woodwork/contentid-17.html
The finer points for each wood species, color, durability, working properties, etc, as well as the above info, are covered in individual pages here:
http://www2.fpl.fs.fed.us/TechSheets/techmenu.html
PS.... interesting that eastern white pine and poplars are lighter than basswood on this chart, but as stated "these values may not necessarily represent average characteristics".
Wood properties chart...
This one's not bad if you want a quick idea of what a species looks like.
http://www.forloversofwood.com/canada/
http://www.forloversofwood.com/canada/
Bob
(Confucius Say... Asking a stupid question is better than repairing a stupid mistake.)
(Confucius Say... Asking a stupid question is better than repairing a stupid mistake.)