Mr. Dillehunt describes the versatility of wood's thickness, color, pliability, and hardness. He demonstrates the difference in hardness by driving nails into a piece of balsa wood and a piece of lignum vitae. He shows the cross-section of growth rings in a tree and the magnification of wood cells, indicating the fiber walls of wood which carry water and which shrink and often crack from lack of moisture. A model of the slash cut and the quarter cut shows the differences in lumbering wood. Mr. Dillehunt exhibits samples of ebony, curly maple and birdseye maple, used ornamentally. He also displays a bowl made from a burl, a disease of the tree. Mr. Poole recommends "Wood handbook", a guide for woodworkers produced by the U.S. Government Printing Office.