That almost made me snort. I've been a woodworker since around 65. I, repeatedly, heard this or that wood is bad. It ALWAYS bothered me.
Lumber yard types used to
think me an idiot for using 2x's to make picture frames, but they're still around and the miters tight four decades later. A few of my reclaimed pallet wood projects were purple ribbon winners.
Now, we even use rotted wood (spalted, etc) by treating it with resin and can produce some of the most beautiful items.
Where we saw oak we, now, see poplar, because it grows fast. To be fair, I don't think you can begin to compare the two for furniture strength and reliability, but there are many applications in which it works just fine.
Some weed trees are perfect for turned bowls. Black locust can pale even oswage orange for
fence posts and, certainly, construction.
In short, every wood is good, and every wood is bad, depending on how you use AND treat it.
Lacia Lynne Bailey wrote:I'm wary of anyone who blanketly says there's good and bad wood.