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Bocote(Mexican Rosewood) is dark green brown timber with a white sapwood. Easily turned to a very fine finish. -
The wood is a red brown which is faintly pink tinged, occasionally with a blackish streak. The texture is medium to fine and even. It weighs 975Kg/m3 with the SG at 12%. It sands and finishes well. It is a hard timber with an attractive grain but turns well and produces a good finish. Tool must be kept sharp. -
The wood is a red brown which is faintly pink tinged, occasionally with a blackish streak. The texture is medium to fine and even. It weighs 975Kg/m3 with the SG at 12%. It sands and finishes well. It is a hard timber with an attractive grain but turns well and produces a good finish. Tool must be kept sharp.
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A red/brown timber veined with darker red stripes. The wood is dense, with a straight to sometimes interlocking grain which when turned has a fine even texture and polishes to a high finish. -
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. -
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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Heartwood is a vivid red when freshly cut, toning down to a medium to dark purple-brown on exposure, often with fine black lines. Sapwood is wide and greyish-white. Straight to interlocked grain with course texture. Finishes very well, tends to be dusty. -
Panga Panga is extraordinary in its rarity as it is only found, in commercially viable quantities, inMozambique. Its dark colours, with rich parenchyma bands brings a touch of the exotic to finished pieces. The heartwood is dark chocolate brown with paler broad bands. At 880kg/m3 the heartwood is extremely durable. It sands and finishes well. -
Panga Panga is extraordinary in its rarity as it is only found, in commercially viable quantities, inMozambique. Its dark colours, with rich parenchyma bands brings a touch of the exotic to finished pieces. The heartwood is dark chocolate brown with paler broad bands. At 880kg/m3 the heartwood is extremely durable. It sands and finishes well.
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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. -
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. -
Wild Mango is a stunning deep cream coloured wood with golden undertones that creates its own ambience. The heartwood has a colour yellow brown to nut brown with a subtle but attractive grain pattern. Weighing 800Kg's/m3 the hardwood durable and logs that have been lying on the forest floor for decades produce high quality sawn boards. It sands and finishes well. It is used for turning and carving. -
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Wild Mango is a stunning deep cream coloured wood with golden undertones that creates its own ambience. The heartwood has a colour yellow brown to nut brown with a subtle but attractive grain pattern. Weighing 800Kg's/m3 the hardwood durable and logs that have been lying on the forest floor for decades produce high quality sawn boards. It sands and finishes well. It is used for turning and carving.
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African blackwood clarinet bell (reject). Dark purple-brown with black streaks, giving an almost black appearance. Generally straight grained with a fine even texture. Finishes exceptionally well. -
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A red/brown timber veined with darker red stripes. The wood is dense, with a straight to sometimes interlocking grain which when turned has a fine even texture and polishes to a high finish.
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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. -
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. -
Heartwood is light golden-yellow with streaks and veining being dark brown to almost black. Sapwood is wide and grey-white with darker markings. Interlocked or wavy grain with course texture. -
Perforated design which allows the dust to escape without clogging. -
2" wide cloth backed abrasive available in six grits, 80G, 120G, 180G, 240G, 320G & 400G. -
2" wide cloth backed abrasive available in six grits, 80G, 120G, 180G, 240G, 320G & 400G.
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2" velcro (hook and loop ) backed abrasive sanding discs. Designed to be used in a power drill but can also be used in the Robert Sorby Sandmaster. Available in 60G, 80G, 120G, 180G, 240G, 320G & 400G. -
Velcro backed 6" (150mm) wide rolls x 1 metre in 9 grits, 80G, 120G, 180G, 240G, 320G, 400G, 600G, 800G & 1200G -
3" velcro (hook and loop ) backed abrasive sanding discs. Designed to be used in a power drill. Available in 80G, 120G, 180G, 240G, 320G & 400G. -
Perforated design which allows the dust to escape without clogging. mixed pack of 15, 3 of each of the following 5 grits, 120G, 180G, 240G, 320G 400G, 70mm x 125mm.
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Fine finish starts with good preparation! Use these mildly abrasive pads after sanding for a final smoothing process to give a near-perfect surface prior to applying any finish. Very long lasting, these pads are also very flexible and do not crumble, thus avoiding contamination of your work. -
2" Soft density tapered arbor for external and shallow internal curves Accepts all Velcro/loop backed abrasives including self or pre-cut squares and discs.- colour may vary
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Fine finishing starts with good preparation! Use these mildly abrasive pads after sanding for that final smoothing process to give a near-perfect surface prior to applying any finish. Very long lasting, these pads are also very flexible and do not crumble, thus avoiding any fear of contamination of your work. Exercise care when using these pads with the lathe revolving.
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Velcro backed 6" (150mm) wide rolls x 1/2 metre of each of the following grits: 120G, 180G, 240G, 320G, 400G & 600G
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2" arbors 50mm x 6mm spindle pad with a 20mm foam, soft pad for external and shallow curves . Accepts all Velcro/loop backed abrasives including self or pre-cut squares and discs.- colour may vary
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3" arbors 75mm x 6mm spindle pad with 20mm foam
