SUCUPIRA

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Origine
AMERICA

Descrizione

Similar Woods:—–

Origin:South America

Range: Primarily in Brasil but also an the northern parts of South America, Venezuela and Guayana.

Uses: Sliced veneer, engineering and construction lumber for all interior and exterior applications,
windows, doors parquet flooring, furniture. Of no great significance in Europe.

Properties: The heartwood is red to brown-red with light yellow lines.
It is most resistant to fungi, insect attack and the weather. The wood is hard, heavy, tough and dense.

Machining:Sucupira is not easy to work due to its extreme hardness and its frequently irregular or interlocked grain.
To be recommended are carbide-tipped tools. The wood splits down the edges at too high a feed speed.

Seasoning: Sucupira must not be dried too quickly because it is very prone to checking and warping.
Too high temperatures cause surface checking and even case hardening.

Finishing: Surface treatment of Sucupira presents no difficulties. Cleanly machined surfaces can be polished well.

Jointing: Joints are easy to produce with glue, screws and nails and are of normal tensile strength