In flooring Red Oak is used as the standard benchmark with a Janka rating of 1290. Hickory is probably the hardest common domestic at 1820. Ipe/Brazilian Walnut is probably the hardest common exotic with a rating of 3680.
-- It's made of wood. Real sturdy.--Chubbs Peterson
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