Zebrawood - Rough Cut Lumber
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Zebrawood - Rough Cut Lumber
Description
Description
Zebrawood – Rough Cut Lumber
Scientific name: Microberlinia brazzavillensis
Distribution: West Africa
Average weight: 50 lbs/ft3 (805 kg/m3)
Common Uses: Zebrawood is frequently quartersawn and used as veneer. Other uses include tool handles, furniture, musical instruments, boatbuilding, carvings, turned objects, and skis.
Color/Appearance: Heartwood is a light brown or cream color with dark blackish brown streaks vaguely resembling a zebra’s stripes. Depending on whether the wood is flatsawn or quartersawn, the stripes can be either wide and erratic (flatsawn), or somewhat narrow and uniform (quartersawn).
Shrinkage :
Radial: 7.6%
Tangential: 10.8%
Volumetric: 17.8%
T/R ratio: 1.4
Workability: The wood saws well, but can be very difficult to plane or surface due to the prevalence of interlocking grain. Tearout is common. Zebrawood glues and finishes well, though a transparent pore filler may be necessary for the large open pores which occur on both dark and light surfaces.
Density: Janka scale: 1,830 lbf - For comparison: White pine 420 lbf – Yellow Birch 1,260 lbf
