Marble Wood Lumber
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Marble wood lumber. Custom exotic lumber orders. As its name implies it has a beautiful marble shell that has an interesting color spectrum. 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 lumber turning wood hobby wood and instrument wood.
The striping is random and irregular. Usually marblewood also sometimes. 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. Rated as durable to very durable regarding decay resistance with moderate resistance to insect attack.
Glues turns and finishes well though there is a high risk of checking and resin exudation during drying. Usually the heartwood is yellow to golden brown with irregular brown purple or black streaks paler sapwood is about one inch thick and is solid yellow lacking the contrasting streaks found in the heartwood. Figured marblewood scientific name marmaroxylon racemosum is from northeastern south america. Our marblewood lumber is of the highest quality and kiln dried unless otherwise noted prices are per board foot and discounts are given at quantities of 10 board feet and 100 board feet.
Marblewood can have a distinctive though usually faint scent while being worked. 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. Marblewood lumber prices per board foot as of oct 01 2020. Our facility produces birdseye maple lumber curly maple tiger maple lumber and we stock over 70 species of exotic wood.
Heartwood is a yellow to golden brown with irregular brown purple or black streaks. Marblewood can have a moderate to severe blunting effect on tool cutters. Sapwood is paler than the heartwood and is a solid yellowis. Marblewood can have a moderate to severe blunting effect on.
Tends to be difficult to work on account of its high density. Red marblewood s overall appearance is very similar to african zebrawood although marblewood tends to have a finer texture. Trees are typically 65 100 feet tall with a maximum base diameter of 2 feet. It s a dark and exquisite wood that showcases unusual dark stripes color range.