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Exotic
Wood Varieties For Sale
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African
Padauk
Excellent
turning wood - used for fancy turnery such as knife and tool
handles. Also prized for high end cabinets, furniture, carving,
veneer, inlay, flooring, dyewood, joinery, dowels, shuttles,
spindles, paddles, and boat building.
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Bloodwood
Cabitnetmaking,
furniture, decorative inlay, marquetry work, fancy boxes, turning,
veneers. Ages to a deep brown color. Lacquer extends aging to
help preserve red color.
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Bubinga
Primarily used as a veneer for cabinetwork, furniture, and panelling.
Also used for knife handles, and fancy goods.
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Bucote
Cabinets
and furniture, decorative boxes, boat decking, vehicle bodies,
light construction. Selected logs sliced for veneers suitable
for panelling and furniture.
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Cannarywood
It
is easy to work with hand and power tools and can be planed
to a very smooth finish. Nailed, screwed and glued joints hold
perfectly, and it can be stained, polished or painted and holds
hard enamels.
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Cocobolo
Considered one of the most important woods in
cutlery business for knife handles (can be soaked in soapy water
with minimal ill effects). Also used for tool handles, brush
backs, bowling balls, chess pieces, carving, jewelry boxes,
canes, utensils, buttons, musical and scientific instruments,
and decorative veneer and inlay.
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Ebony
Very
fine texture with an indistinct grain and metallic luster. Uniformly
black heartwood and yellowish white sapwood. Used for piano
keys, musical instruments, turnery, inlay, novelties, billiard
cues, brush backs, and cutlery handles.
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Lacewood
Furniture,
cabinetmaking, joinery, light construction, panelling, ornamental
inlay, decorative uses. Excellent for turning fancy goods.
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Mahogany
High-class
furniture and cabinetmaking, reproduction furniture, boat interiors,
pianos, pattern making, carving, turning, moulds and dies, veneers.
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Purpleheart
Uses
include inlay, marquetry, furniture, cabinets, flooring, turnery,
carving, outdoor construction, chemical vats (very acid resistant),
filter press plates, diving boards, and boat building.
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Rosewood
Bolivian
Rosewood, or "Morado" as it is more commonly known,
is a dense, easily worked wood from Central and South America.
Purplish tan in color and streaked with brown or black figure.
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Teak
Has
numerous uses including ship building (especially decks), indoor
or outdoor furniture, high class joinery, flooring, paneling,
plywood, decorative veneers, turnery, carving, chemical tanks
and vats.
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Wenge
The
high natural resistance to abrasion makes this timber very suitable
for flooring strips or blocks. Also used for interior and exterior
joinery and general construction work. It is an excellent turning
wood. Sliced for decorative and paneling veneers.
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Zebrawood
Mainly
used as decorative veneer, cross bandings or inlay. Fancy goods,
marquetry and panelling.
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