<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Nordic Masur]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nordic Masur]]></description><link>https://www.nordicmasur.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:51:04 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.nordicmasur.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Curly Birch Wood Properties — The Numbers That Matter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Janka hardness around 1,250 lbf, specific gravity 0.65 to 0.68, dried to 8-10% for European interiors. Harder than plain birch, softer than sugar maple, and unforgiving of a dull blade.]]></description><link>https://www.nordicmasur.com/post/curly-birch-wood-properties</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa2ee97320a0c351281ab20</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:57:23 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>aomoilanen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Tell Real Curly Birch from Regular Birch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wipe a damp cloth across a rough-sawn face and the figure lights up straight away, because interlocked fibres absorb water at different rates. Bark, end grain and honest photographs of all sides catch the rest of the mislabelling.]]></description><link>https://www.nordicmasur.com/post/identify-curly-birch</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa2deff240835677c438c8e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:48:58 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>aomoilanen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Curly Birch Is So Expensive]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forty percent usable material out of a log that looked perfect from the outside. Add winter felling at minus twenty, hand grading and eight to twelve months of drying, and curly birch pricing stops looking arbitrary.]]></description><link>https://www.nordicmasur.com/post/why-curly-birch-expensive</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa2ddea5462f0629b99ac09</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:44:40 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>aomoilanen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curly Birch, Masur Birch, Karelian Birch — Same Wood, Three Names]]></title><description><![CDATA[Masur is Swedish and German, Karelian points to a region, visakoivu is what a Finnish forest owner says. The name tells you where your seller learned the trade, not whether the wood is any good.]]></description><link>https://www.nordicmasur.com/post/curly-birch-masur-karelian-names</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa2d9e5f448a9cd17b0e417</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:25:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9160b3_dababc1e784142aba067773033297f7a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nordic Masur</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is Curly Birch? A Straight Answer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Betula pendula var. carelica is a genetic variant of silver birch, not a disease or a wound. One to two percent of trees carry it, and bumpy bark is how you spot one standing.]]></description><link>https://www.nordicmasur.com/post/what-is-curly-birch</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3aa26fe48ba4122ae706fd</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:21:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9160b3_9fab8a5b577c469281f45b5b64752555~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nordic Masur</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>