Mold fire weather and pest resistant.
Very dense african hardwood.
Three times harder than cedar.
African blackwood is considered to be among the hardest and densest of woods in the world.
Due to its extreme hardness it is commonly used for the fretboard on a guitar.
Since water is repelled by the wood s oils using water based glues like titebond can pose problems though titebond ii or iii are usually better at gluing oily woods than titebond original.
Guibourtia spp also known as african rosewood is a beautiful dense hardwood with a rose colored background and darker purple striping.
It features a dark brown even purplish heartwood with dark streaks.
African blackwood is an exotic wood native to eastern africa and is also known as mozambique ebony or senegal ebony.
The wood is stubbornly hard and the tree is protected by giant sharp thorns.
African blackwood as its name implies is another black colored wood.
Formerly classified as a member of the acacia genus this south african hardwood is a tough customer.
Ebony wood is a dense black brown hardwood which is dense enough to sink in water.
It says elsewhere that black ironwood african ironwood is called olea capensis and according to the guinness book of records is the heaviest wood with a specific gravity of 1 49 whatever that means.
Although the name is applied generally to trees of three unrelated genera scores of other trees are also called ironwood in local usage.
100 percent natural wood.
It has the same fire rating as steel and concrete making it a more fire resistant choice than softwoods.
I have two elephants from south africa they do not float.
African blackwood as its name implies is another black colored wood.
3 use synthetic non water based glues.
It is an extremely hard wood strong and stiff very stable with a fine texture.
One of the densest hardwoods it sinks in water.
Iron wood ironwood is a common name for a wide variety of african trees or shrubs that have exceptionally hard or dense wood.
It is indigenous to madagascar and southern africa.
Instead use glues that aren t water based and or glues that can bond a wider variety of materials like plastics and other non porous surfaces.
