Padauk is an exotic wood that is a bright orange or almost crimson wood when freshly cut but oxidizes to a darker rich purple brown over time although it stays redder than indian rosewood.
Is padauk a hardwood.
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African padauk is a bold flooring option.
Slightly harder and heavier than indian rosewood it is a good wood in all respects stable and easy to work with.
Bright orange red when freshly cut darkening to a reddish brown with age.
It s a popular hardwood among hobbyist woodworkers because of its unique color and low cost.
A first class furniture and cabinet wood padauk also makes fine turnings carvings and musical instruments.
Padauk is a very strong and sturdy wood often used as a heavy duty flooring timber as well as paddles oars and fancy turnery.
Santalinus also yields the most precious rosewood in china known as zitan.
Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family fabaceae it belongs to the subfamily faboideae and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic pterocarpus clade within the dalbergieae.
African padauk is chosen by interior designers whenever they want a room to make a bold statement.
It is extremely durable and rot resistant.
The wood can sometimes be found figured ribbon.
Because it has a high resistance to abrasion has great strength and it doesn t readily decay it adapts well to cutting board stock.
Padauk is perhaps the most frequently misspelled and mispronounced wood species with padouk paduk and paduak being common misspellings.
Photosensitivity yes darkens and changes color to dark burgundy brown padauk aged.
Padauk is moderately heavy strong and stiff with exceptional stability.
African paduak is a very strong stable hardwood.
Padauk african padauk vermillion pterocarpus soyauxii.
Most species of pterocarpus yield valuable timber traded as padauk or padouk.
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Padauk aged with oil finish.
And padauk s bright dust can discolor adjacent unfinished stock if it s of a lighter shade.
Other common names are mukwa or narra p.
Exotic hardwood flooring lumber american manufactured african exotic species hardwood flooring.
A brick red to an orange red colour.
African padauk pterocarpus soyauxii janka hardness 1720.
