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The Wooden Dimensions: Know Your Wood: Australian Buloke
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A Specialty Lumber Solutions blog about ipe, deck tiles, cumaru, cypress, and everything in between. Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Know Your Wood: Australian Buloke. The Australian Bull Oak tests out as the most difficult to penetrate by at least one measure. Common trade names: buloke, bull-oak. Location: Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales in Australia. Common Aliases: Australian buloke, Australian bull-oak. Common Uses: Nesting and feeding of the Australian Red-tailed Black Cockatoo. I am also looking ...
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The Wooden Dimensions: Know Your Wood: Black Walnut
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A Specialty Lumber Solutions blog about ipe, deck tiles, cumaru, cypress, and everything in between. Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Know Your Wood: Black Walnut. The heartwood and sapwood found in Black Walnut is unambiguous. Broadbent Canadian Furniture. Produced this distinctive work. Common trade names: Black Walnut. Walnut, Eastern Black Walnut. Common Aliases: American black walnut, American walnut, Eastern walnut, gun wood, nogal, Nuez meca. Love ‘em, hate ‘em, or leave ‘em, Aggie. Rupture Strength: 14...
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The Wooden Dimensions: Know Your Wood: Black Cherry
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A Specialty Lumber Solutions blog about ipe, deck tiles, cumaru, cypress, and everything in between. Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Know Your Wood: Black Cherry. Augustine delivers a valuable lesson, perhaps more in myth than reality. Common trade names: Black Cherry. Cherry, North American Cherry, Appalachian Cherry. A nice picture featuring the figure of Black Cherry, from The Wood Explorer. Of surface, and is a truly remarkable wood in several facets of service. Common Uses: Fine furnishings, cabinetry, m...
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The Wooden Dimensions: Know your wood: Afromosia
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A Specialty Lumber Solutions blog about ipe, deck tiles, cumaru, cypress, and everything in between. Monday, March 5, 2012. Know your wood: Afromosia. A moderately colored swatch of Afromosia, as displayed in The Wood Explorer. Janka Hardness (pounds-force): 2524. Description: Afromosia is a medium sized tree with irregularly peeling bark. The writings here refer specifically to Pericopsis angolensis. Afrormosia. Location: Central African Republic, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zaire, Zimbabwe. Hardness: 2,524 lbf.
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The Wooden Dimensions: Know your wood: Balau
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A Specialty Lumber Solutions blog about ipe, deck tiles, cumaru, cypress, and everything in between. Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Know your wood: Balau. A stately Shorea roxburghii, planted by King Bhumiphol of Thailand, now blatantly stolen from Wikipedia. Species: Many similar referenced here. Janka Hardness (pounds-force): 1560. Location: Malay peninsula, Indochina, Indonesia, the Philippines. Densely grows in the forests of Borneo, Sumatra, and Malaysia. From: The Wood Database. Average Dried Weight: 53 ...
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The Wooden Dimensions: Know Your Wood: Cuban Mahogany
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A Specialty Lumber Solutions blog about ipe, deck tiles, cumaru, cypress, and everything in between. Sunday, January 29, 2012. Know Your Wood: Cuban Mahogany. Sunken Florida Mahogany. Quite rare, and wonderfully preserved with distinctive streaking. Common trade names: Cuban Mahogany, West Indian Mahogany, Florida Mahogany. Location: Southern Florida, The Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, St. Croix, Hispaniola, Virgin Islands. From: The Wood Database. Common Name(s): Cuban Mahogany, West Indies Mahogany. Tree Size...
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The Wooden Dimensions: Know your wood: Bubinga
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A Specialty Lumber Solutions blog about ipe, deck tiles, cumaru, cypress, and everything in between. Monday, March 19, 2012. Know your wood: Bubinga. I’ve been kind of put in a mood to throw together some speakers soon. Salk Sound has the Veracity to assemble in Bubinga seen here. Sharp pieces in their catalogue. Janka Hardness (pounds-force): 2610. Jeff Robertson of Allied Lutherie seems to have the ability to put together a mean guitar. Affordability: $ $ Still a relatively good investment grade lumber...
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The Wooden Dimensions: Know Your Wood: African Blackwood
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A Specialty Lumber Solutions blog about ipe, deck tiles, cumaru, cypress, and everything in between. Sunday, February 5, 2012. Know Your Wood: African Blackwood. Nothing says "I'm me! Quite like a gilded African Blackwood ipad. Common trade names: African Blackwood. African ebony, Ebene, Zebra wood, Mpingo. Location: Central Africa, namely: Angola, Central African Republic, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe. From: The Wood Database. Scientific Name: Dalbergia melanoxylon.
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The Wooden Dimensions: Relative Humidity, Part II
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A Specialty Lumber Solutions blog about ipe, deck tiles, cumaru, cypress, and everything in between. Thursday, January 31, 2013. Relative Humidity, Part II. I’ve thought long and hard about the best analogy for lumber acclimation to diverse environments, and the best advice I can give is the same advice that’s been given for years, and by people much more informed than myself on the subject: Proper acclimation. Continues to be the key to a positive installation result. In the first shot, we see the spong...
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The Wooden Dimensions: Know Your Wood: Brown Ebony
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A Specialty Lumber Solutions blog about ipe, deck tiles, cumaru, cypress, and everything in between. Sunday, February 5, 2012. Know Your Wood: Brown Ebony. This sanded sample from The Wood Database displays the distinctive properties of Brown Ebony. Common trade names: Brazilian Ebony, Coffeewood, Cuji yaque. Genus: Caesalphinia (C. granadillo, C. paraguariensis, etc.). Location: Central to South America, namely: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Venezuela. From: The Wood Database.