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Bocote (Mexican Rosewood) is dark green brown timber with a white sapwood. Easily turned to a very fine finish. -
Mopane is a very heavy, dense timber. Dark red/brown in colour generally streaked with black. Narrow straw coloured sapwood. Turns well with care and polishes to a lustrous finish. -
Mopane is a very heavy, dense timber. Dark red/brown in colour generally streaked with black. Narrow straw coloured sapwood. Turns well with care and polishes to a lustrous finish.
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The heartwood is light and dark chocolate brown. At 1010kg's/m3 the wood is hard, heavy, durable, close-grained and resistant to termites. When freshly worked it has a distinctive, sweetish smell.It sands and finishes well to a satin lustre. It is used in musical instruments, turning and carving. -
A dark brown to sometimes nearly black wood with straight to interlocking grain. Hard and heavy with good working qualities. Turns and finishes well and takes a good polish. -
Out of stock
Deep orange-brown timber with broad medullary rays creating a flame pattern on quarter cut faces or numerous spots on flat sawn surfaces. Hard and heavy with a slightly coarse texture. -
Cocobolo has a high mechanical strength in all categories, and is heavy, tough and strong. It works reasonably well with hand tools, but cutting edges must be kept sharp. -
Pink ivory wood dries slowly and doesn't split easily due to its high oil content. Its attractive colouring makes it ideal for carving, turning, inlay work and even musical instruments. -
A dark brown to sometimes nearly black wood with straight to interlocking grain. Hard and heavy with good working qualities. Turns and finishes well and takes a good polish.
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Weight: 1100Kg/m3.One of the first and finest ebonies in common use and probably overused in the past. This stock is taken from new growth logs and is therefore subject to stringent export regulation that, along with the small log sizes somewhat limits the range of sizes that can be offered. -
Only the heartwood of cocobolo is used; it is usually orange or reddish-brown, often with darker irregular traces weaving through the wood. The heartwood changes colour after being cut, and can be polished to a lustrous, glassy finish; being quite dense, sometimes having a specific gravity of over 1.0, it will sink in water. The sapwood (not often used) is a creamy yellow, with a sharp boundary between it and the heartwood.
