Andiroba

Formal Name: Carapa spp.

Color: Sapwood is a light pink or pale brown color, not always demarcated from the heartwood. Heartwood is a light salmon to reddish brown, darkening with age to a medium to dark brown. Quarter sawn surfaces exhibit a ribbon-like appearance similar to Sapele.

Shade: dark

Workability: Easy to work with both hand and machine tools. Sometimes pieces with interlocked grain will experience tearout during surfacing. Moderate blunting effect on tool cutters.

Physical Properties: Heavy, dense wood with medium hardness and high resistance to crushing and bending. Compression parallel to the grain is in the high range.

Interior/Exterior: mostly interior

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