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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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Padauk

TROPICAL HARDWOOD

 Padauk Timber

Family:

 Leguminosae

Latin Name:

 Pterocarpus soyauxii

Distribution:

 Central and West Tropical Africa.

Uses:

 This attractive wood has high strength properties, durability and outstanding stability and is deal for high-class joinery, furniture and cabinetmaking. Also for fancy turnery and carvings, tool and knife handles, spirit levels, paddles and oars, and agricultural implements. It has a high resistance to abrasion and makes and excellent heavy-duty flooring timber, also suitable for floors where under-floor heating has been installed because of dimensional stability. Selected logs are sliced to form very attractive decorative veneers. Renowned as a dye wood.

General Description:
The heartwood is a vivid blood red, toning down to dark purple-brown with red streaks upon exposure. The grain is straight to interlocked with a moderately coarse texture. Weight varies from 640-800 kg/m3 (40-50 lb/ft3), average 720 kg/m3 (45 lb/ft3); specific gravity .72.  

Mechanical Properties:
The timber has excellent strength properties especially in bending and crushing strengths, with medium resistance to shock loads and stiffness.  

Seasoning:
Dries fairly rapidly and very well with a minimum of degrade. The movement is exceptionally small in service.  

Durability:
The heartwood is very durable and moderately resistant to preservative treatment.  

Other Names:

Camwood, barwood (UK); corail (Belgium).