1.   A rough hinged wire door had been fashioned in cheap soft wood, only eighteen inches square.

2.   We tried the machine on hardwood and soft wood.

3.   Pine is a soft wood.

4.   Cedar is an extremely soft wood and when dry it will cut like butter.

5.   Common soft woods include cedar, douglas fir, pine, redwood and spruce.

6.   Even when dry, soft woods such as pine burn up more quickly than hardwoods such as oak.

7.   For cutting soft woods, the cutting edge should have narrow, acute angle, but this would quickly dull on hard woods.

8.   Hardwood, like soft wood, is graded by inspectors.

9.   In Japan, most woodworkers use soft woods, and thus can use extremely hard steel.

10.   It can sometimes happen on modern pieces when the soft wood surrounding the screw crumbles.