This is a top five types of wood used to make stuff with, such as myself, being a set of nested tables and all:
5: Beech. Quite a soft wood, kinda reddish (I think), good for making, er, models of beech trees.
4: Sapient pearwood. Magical wood, used to make magicians' staves and other magical stuff. Found only on the Discworld, and is rare even there.
3: Oak. The classic British wood. Used to make doors, tables and other exciting stuff. Unlike erections, oak gets harder with age.
2: Mahogany. The upper-class wood. A rich, dark colouration means that this wood looks great as cupboards.
1: Pine. The king of woods. Used to make nested tables (hooray!) and furniture in Ikea. Also, has pun-based opportunity, since pine also means to, er, wallow in self-pity, I suppose. Like the Norwegian Blue, pining for the fjords.