Marble Wood Lumber

Exotic wood sale 25 40 off now thru october 31 2020 red marblewood is bontanically related to ipe and is just as hard and dense.
Marble wood lumber. Sapwood is paler than the heartwood and is a solid yellowis. While the sapwood is usually bears the same distinctively pale yellow color as the heartwood only the heartwood features the trademark striping which makes the wood so appealing to turners. As its name implies it has a beautiful marble shell that has an interesting color spectrum. Tends to be difficult to work on account of its high density.
Our facility produces birdseye maple lumber curly maple tiger maple lumber and we stock over 70 species of exotic wood. Custom exotic lumber orders. Glues turns and finishes well though there is a high risk of checking and resin exudation during drying. The red marblewood has been standing in water for up to 40 years and that had the tendency to give the wood a more brown to reddish brown color.
Marblewood can have a distinctive though usually faint scent while being worked. It s a dark and exquisite wood that showcases unusual dark stripes color range. Marblewood tree is known for the highly distinctive stripes ranging in color from dark brown to even purple or black. Heartwood is a yellow to golden brown with irregular brown purple or black streaks.
Usually marblewood also sometimes. Marblewood lumber turning wood hobby wood and instrument wood. It can be said that there are at least 19 species of marblewood which all of them have the common name marblewood. Red marblewood s overall appearance is very similar to african zebrawood although marblewood tends to have a finer texture.
Figured marblewood scientific name marmaroxylon racemosum is from northeastern south america. Marblewood tree has different pharmaceutical properties and is used in the pharmaceutical industry. No two patterns are ever alike. Marblewood can have a moderate to severe blunting effect on.
Marblewood lumber prices per board foot as of oct 01 2020. Rated as durable to very durable regarding decay resistance with moderate resistance to insect attack. Trees are typically 65 100 feet tall with a maximum base diameter of 2 feet. The striping is random and irregular.