Ebony Wood Properties

Description of african ebony wood flooring – species appearance, properties, and workability.

A chart of the mechanical properties of Noth American hardwoods. Part of the Workshop Companion, a collection of information on wood, woodwork, woodworking skills, woodworking materials, and woodworking plans that together form the core knowledge needed by woodworkers, furniture makers, cabinetmakers, turners, and other practioners of the wood

Description of brazilian eucalyptus, or rose gum, wood flooring – species appearance, properties, and workability.

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression.

Wenge (Millettia laurentii). STATUS: ENDANGERED Wenge is another African hardwood whose natural range largely overlaps that of Gaboon Ebony. Wenge is not related to ebony, but is a very dark wood that turns nearly black when a finish is a applied, and has been considered as a direct replacement to ebony.

Zebrawood lumber, turning wood, hobby wood and instrument wood. Our facility produces Birdseye Maple Lumber, Curly Maple (Tiger Maple) Lumber and we stock over 70 species of exotic wood.

I have been reading how workable this wood is supposed to be and looked at it’s Janka hardness rating but I am finding my specimens to be about as hard as bathroom tile to cut and they do have a lot of “white” in them.

This Wood Species series of entries comes to us from guest writer Rob Wilkey, an Atlanta-based woodworker and industrial designer whose expertise is in small home goods, furniture, and large installations.*

furniture wood species, ash, birch, cherry, elm, ebony, kingwood, oak, maple, mahony, rosewood, satinwood, walnut

Ebony is a dense black hardwood, most commonly yielded by several different species in the genus Diospyros, which also contains the persimmons.Ebony is …