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Blunting Effect
Boring
Carving
Common Names
Common Uses
Countries of Distribution
Cutting Resistance
Distribution Overview
Drying Defects
Ease of Drying
Environmental Profile
Family Name
Gluing
Grain
Heartwood Color
Kiln Drying Rate
Luster
Mortising
Moulding
Movement in Service
Nailing
Natural Durability
Numerical Data
Odor
Painting
Planing
Polishing
Product Sources
References
Regions of Distribution
Resistance to Impregnation
Response to Hand Tools
Routing & Recessing
Sanding
Sapwood Color
Scientific Name
Screwing
Staining
Steam Bending
Strength Properties
Texture
Trade Name
Tree Size
Turning
Varnishing
Veneering Qualities
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Common Names
Coyote, Granadillo, Guayacan trebol, Jacaranda do brejo, Koenatepi, Macacauba, Macawood, Trebol
Regions of Distribution
Central America, Latin America
Countries of Distribution
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Belize, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela
Common Uses
Bedroom suites, Billiard-cue butts, Bobbins, Cabinetmaking, Chairs, Chests, Decorative veneer, Desks, Dining-room furniture, Drawer sides, Drum sticks, Excelsior, Figured veneer, Fine furniture, Furniture , Joinery, Kitchen cabinets, Living-room suites, Musical instruments , Office furniture, Organ pipes, Piano keys, Pianos , Picker sticks, Radio - stereo - TV cabinets, Shade rollers, Shuttles, Sounding boards, Specialty items, Spindles, Spools, Sporting Goods, Stencil & chisel blocks, Sucker rods, Turnery, Umbrella handles , Veneer, Violin bows, Violin, Wardrobes, Xylophones
Environmental Profile
| Environmental status not officially assessed |
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Distribution Overview
The species occurs in Central and South America, and is found in Nicaragua, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Guyana, Colombia, Trinidad, and Surinam.
Heartwood Color
| Yellow |
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| White |
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| Red |
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| Bright red to reddish or purplish brown, with rather distinct stripes |
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Sapwood Color
| Red |
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| Yellow |
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| White |
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| Clearly distinct from heartwood |
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| Almost white |
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Texture
| Fine |
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| Fine to medium |
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| Darker colored wood has a waxy appearance |
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Natural Durability
| Non-durable |
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| Perishable |
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| Susceptible to insect attack |
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| Non-resistant to powder post beetles |
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| Non-resistant to termites |
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| Non-resistant to marine borers |
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| Highly resistant to attack by decay fungi, insects, and dry-wood termites |
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Woods with high resistance to decay could last between 15 and 25 years in contact with the ground and without any chemical protection.
Odor
Drying Defects
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| Distortion |
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| Slight tendency to warp and check in drying |
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Ease of Drying
| Fairly Easy |
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| Moderately Difficult to Difficult |
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| Slowly |
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| Air dries slowly with little degrade |
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Kiln Drying Rate
| Naturally dries quickly |
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| Naturally dries at a moderate speed |
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Tree Size
| Tree height is 30-40 m |
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| Tree height is 20-30 m |
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| Bole length is 0-10 m |
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Product Sources
The name Macacauba is used to refer to several species of Platymiscium sold on the commercial market.
Blunting Effect
Boring
| Fairly easy to very easy |
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| Fair to good results |
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| Timber bores readily to yield clean surfaces |
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Carving
Cutting Resistance
| Easy to saw |
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| Low resistance to sawing |
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Gluing
| Fairly Easy to Very Easy |
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| Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult |
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| Fair to Good Results |
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Mortising
| Fairly Easy to Very Easy |
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| Very Good to Excellent Results |
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| Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult |
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| Fair to Good Results |
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| Generally mortises well |
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Moulding
| Fair to Good Results |
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| Fairly Easy to Very Easy |
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| Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult |
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| Very Good to Excellent Results |
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| Good moulding properties |
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Movement in Service
| Excellent Stability - Small Movement |
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| Fair to Good Stability - Medium Movement |
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Nailing
| Fairly Easy to Very Easy |
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| Very Good to Excellent Results |
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| Fair to Good Results |
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Planing
| Fair to Good Results |
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| Fairly Easy to Very Easy |
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| Very Good to Excellent Results |
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| Planed surfaces tend to be relatively clean |
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| Fairly easy planing operations |
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Resistance to Impregnation
| Permeable heartwood |
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| Permeable sapwood |
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| Sapwood responds well to preservative treatment |
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| Sapwood penetration is usually irregular |
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Response to Hand Tools
| Easy to Work |
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Routing & Recessing
| Fairly Easy to Very Easy |
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| Fair to Good Results |
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| Very Good to Excellent Results |
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| Generally good routing qualities |
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Sanding
Screwing
| Fair to Good Results |
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| Fairly Easy to Very Easy |
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| Very Good to Excellent Results |
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Turning
| Fair to Good Results |
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| Fairly Easy to Very Easy |
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| Very Good to Excellent Results |
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| Turns well with ordinary machine tools |
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Veneering Qualities
| Suitable for peeling |
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| Veneers easily |
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| Veneers moderately easy |
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Steam Bending
Painting
| Fair to Good Results |
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Polishing
| Fair to Good Results |
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| Excellent polishing characteristics |
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Staining
| Fair to Good Results |
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Varnishing
| Fair to Good Results |
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Strength Properties
| High in density |
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| Compression strength (parallel to grain) = high |
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The species has exceptionally high bending strength properties in the air-dry condition (about 12 percent moisture content). Strength qualiIt is far stronger, for example, than Hard maple, White oak, or Teak. It is far stronger, for example, than Hard maple, White oak, or Teak. It is hard - harder than Teak, and does not marr or dent easily. It weighs much more than Hard maple or Teak in the green or seasoned condition
Numerical Data
| Item | Green | Dry | English |
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| Bending Strength | 18338 | 21670 | psi |
| Density | | 63 | lbs/ft3 |
| Hardness | | 2406 | lbs |
| Maximum Crushing Strength | 8674 | 12093 | psi |
| Stiffness | 2543 | 2793 | 1000 psi |
| Specific Gravity | 0.79 | | |
| Weight | 62 | 51. | lbs/ft3 |
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| Item | Green | Dry | Metric |
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| Bending Strength | 1289 | 1523 | kg/cm2 |
| Density | | 1009 | kg/m3 |
| Hardness | | 1091 | kg |
| Maximum Crushing Strength | 609 | 850 | kg/cm2 |
| Stiffness | 178 | 196 | 1000 kg/cm2 |
| Specific Gravity | 0.79 | | |
References
Chudnoff, M.,1984,Tropical Timbers of the World,U.S.A. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products,Laboratory, Madison.
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