Padauk

TROPICAL HARDWOOD

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.

Further product details

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 Information

Family Name: Leguminosae

Latin Name: Pterocarpus soyauxii

Distribution: Central and West Tropical Africa.

Also known as: Camwood, barwood (UK); corail (Belgium).

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