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Smee Timber Ltd is established as one of Britain's leading and most comprehensive hardwood importing and manufacturing companies, offering an enormous choice of timber to manufacturers and users.

 

 

 

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African Walnut

TROPICAL HARDWOOD

 African Walnut Timber

Family:

 Meliaceae

Latin Name:

 Lovoa trichilioides

Distribution:

 Tropical West Africa

Uses:

 Extensively used for furniture and cabinetmaking, lipping and panelling, joinery, shopfitting, gun stocks and rifle butts, domestic flooring, billiard tables, etc. Slices into very attractive face veneers for plywood manufacture and decorative veneers for panelling, cabinets and marquetry.

General Description:
The heartwood is bronze orange-brown, with gum lines causing black streaks or lines. The grain is interlocked, sometimes spiral, producing a striking ribbon striped figure on quartered surfaces. It has a moderately fine texture and is lustrous. The timber is of medium density weighing from 480-650 kg/m3 (30-40 lb/ft3), average 550 kg/m3 (34 lb/ft3); specific gravity .55.  

Mechanical Properties:
The wood has medium crushing strength, low bending strength and resistance to shock loads, and very low stiffness. Bending classification is moderate.  

Seasoning:
The wood dries fairly rapidly but requires care in seasoning as existing shakes tend to extend, and some distortion may occur. There is small movement in service.  

Durability:
Moderately durable; the heartwood is subject to insect attack and is extremely resistant to preservative treatment and the sapwood moderately resistant.  

Other Names:

Eyan (Gabon); dibétou (Ivory Coast); apopo, sida (Nigeria); bibolo (Cameroon); bombolu (Zaire); eyan, dilolo (France); nvero (Sp. Guinea).