Marblewood lumber turning wood hobby wood and instrument wood.
Marble wood and the name of the tree.
Our facility produces birdseye maple lumber curly maple tiger maple lumber and we stock over 70 species of exotic wood.
The striping is random and irregular.
The trouble with this number is that the specific gravity of a wood changes with its moisture content.
The tree or triple tree was a form of gallows consisting of a horizontal wooden triangle supported by three legs an arrangement known as a three legged mare or three legged stool.
Heartwood is a yellow to golden brown with irregular brown purple or black streaks.
Marblewood tree has different pharmaceutical properties and is used in the pharmaceutical industry.
No two patterns are ever alike.
In 1571 the tyburn tree was erected near the junction of today s edgware road bayswater road and oxford street 200 metres west of marble arch.
Figured marblewood scientific name marmaroxylon racemosum is from northeastern south america.
Marblewood tree is known for the highly distinctive stripes ranging in color from dark brown to even purple or black.
We display the specific gravity for each of our woods using it s kiln dried measurement instead of the non dried measurement.
It s just a guide.
Marblewood s overall appearance is very similar to zebrawood though marblewood tends to have a slightly finer texture.
As its name implies it has a beautiful marble shell that has an interesting color spectrum.
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.
The high contrast between the golden body and the much darker streaks give it an appearance somewhat similar to natural marble hence the common name of marblewood for this species.
A wood doesn t float for example if it s specific gravity is 1 00 or greater.
Marble wood definition of marble wood by the.
Usually marblewood also sometimes known as serpentwood grow up in northeastern south america and its wood is almost expensive.
Marble wood hard marbled wood marblewood zebrawood tree zebrawood any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood andaman marble.
Trees are typically 65 100 feet tall with a maximum base diameter of 2 feet.