Woods
Each museum-quality piece is available in the customer's choice of several quality hardwoods.
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Zebrawood: Well-known for its highly contrasting light and dark stripes, zebrawood is prized the world around for its unique appearance. The wood has a moderately coarse texture with a close defined grain. Due to high shipping costs, zebrawood is mostly available in the United States as a veneer, but it is also used for turnings, furniture, tool handles, and pens.
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White Ash: The most valuable of our native ashes and world-famous for its quality and technical properties. The wood is very tough and resilient, and is used for farm implements, tool handles, vehicle bodies, baseball bats, tennis rackets, oars, spring boards, piano frames, and to some extent for furniture and interior trim.
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Teak: Famous the world over as a superior shipbuilding wood, teak combines ease of working with strength, resistance to decay and to warping and checking with changes of moisture and temperature. It is used for decking, deck housings, armor backing, furniture, porch floors, interior trim, wood carving, cabinets, etc.
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Purpleheart: Also known as Amaranth, this is a comparatively new wood to the American public. The wood is hard, heavy, strong and durable, and resembles the far more expensive Brazillian Rosewood. In this country it has been used for billiard cue butts, archery bows, inlay, interior trim and cabinet making.
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Mahogany: Also known as "American mahogany", or "true mahogany", this is the most popular of the fancy cabinet and furniture woods. Several tropical woods resemble the true mahogany, but none equal it for technical qualities or beauty. The wood is strong and durable and seasons well. It is used for patterns, cabinets, interior finish and fixtures. Currently, the best source of this hardwood is Honduras.
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Ebony: The heartwood of a tropical persimmon tree. Some pieces are all black and some are streaked. The wood is very hard and heavy and is prized for inlay work, piano keys, novelties, knife handles, brush backs, violin finger boards and keys, etc.
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Black Walnut: The finest of our native "fancy" woods. At one time it was very abundant and was used for railroad ties and fence posts and rails, but the supply is now very limited. Many old walnut stumps are now being dug up and made into veneer. For gunstocks, fine furniture, cabinets and interior finish, it is unsurpassed. Very few woods lend so much dignity to furniture and interiors.