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    • Hardwood Floors
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      • Appalachian Wood Floors
      • Capella Hardwood Flooring
      • Bruce Hardwood Floors
      • HomerWood Flooring
      • Indusparquet Exotic Floor
      • Lauzon Hardwood Floors
      • Mirage Hardwood Floors
      • Mullican Hardwood Floors
      • Somerset Hardwood Floors
      • Superior Hardwood Floors
      • Triangulo Exotic Flooring
    • Wood Species
      • Janka Ratings
      • Wood Relative Stability
      • Acacia
      • Amendoim
      • Black Walnut
      • Birch
      • Brazilian Cherry
      • Brazilian Teak/Cumaru
      • Brazilian Walnut/IPE
      • Hickory / Pecan
      • Pine
      • Red Oak
      • Santos Mahogany/Cabreuva
      • Sapele African Mahogany
      • Brazilian Tigerwood Koa
      • White Oak
    • Vinyl, LVT, Laminate
      • Armstrong Vinyl Flooring
      • BeauFlor Vinyl n Laminate
      • Mannington DuraMax Vinyl
      • Tarkett ProGen Vinyl
      • CoreTec Plus Vinyl
    • FYI
      • Formaldehyde Free Floors
      • Installers n Contractors
      • Relative Humidity Control
      • Flooring Warranty
      • Terms n Conditions
  • Home
  • Hardwood Floors
    • Armstrong Wood Flooring
    • Appalachian Wood Floors
    • Capella Hardwood Flooring
    • Bruce Hardwood Floors
    • HomerWood Flooring
    • Indusparquet Exotic Floor
    • Lauzon Hardwood Floors
    • Mirage Hardwood Floors
    • Mullican Hardwood Floors
    • Somerset Hardwood Floors
    • Superior Hardwood Floors
    • Triangulo Exotic Flooring
  • Wood Species
    • Janka Ratings
    • Wood Relative Stability
    • Acacia
    • Amendoim
    • Black Walnut
    • Birch
    • Brazilian Cherry
    • Brazilian Teak/Cumaru
    • Brazilian Walnut/IPE
    • Hickory / Pecan
    • Pine
    • Red Oak
    • Santos Mahogany/Cabreuva
    • Sapele African Mahogany
    • Brazilian Tigerwood Koa
    • White Oak
  • Vinyl, LVT, Laminate
    • Armstrong Vinyl Flooring
    • BeauFlor Vinyl n Laminate
    • Mannington DuraMax Vinyl
    • Tarkett ProGen Vinyl
    • CoreTec Plus Vinyl
  • FYI
    • Formaldehyde Free Floors
    • Installers n Contractors
    • Relative Humidity Control
    • Flooring Warranty
    • Terms n Conditions

Phone: 732-287-9979 Email: njfloor@gmail.com

Santos Mahogany / Red Cabreuva

 

Botanical name: Myroxylon. Grows in: South America and Mexico.

Color: medium range of color variation - between a light orangey/brown with yellowish overtones to a dark reddish/purplish brown. Medium range of photosensibility.

Grain: Straight, smooth, elegant. Occasional curly grain or wavy figure in some boards, similar to maple.

Yellow birch, sweet birch, paper birch. Paper birch (B. papyrifera) is softer and lower in weight and strength than yellow or sweet birch. However, yellow birch is most commonly used for flooring. Boards can vary greatly in grain and color. The grain is commonly interlocked. Quartersawn material usually exhibits a striped figure.

Texture: Texture is typically even and very fine.

Luster: The wood has medium to high luster.

Hardness/Janka: Janka:2320; 2% softer than Northern red oak.

Dimensional Stability: Very good.

Durability: Very good.

Workability: Difficult to work with hand tools, but good machining qualities. It is good with sanding and nailing, but may be difficult to stain.

Nailing: Nail-holding ability is reported to be good.

Polishing: The timber is reported to have excellent polishing characteristics.

Sanding Sanding characteristics are rated as satisfactory.

Response to Hand Tools: Response to hand tools is fair, but cutting edges tend to dull rapidly.

Strength Properties: Bending strength in the air-dry condition (about 12 percent moisture content) is exceptionally high. It is far superior in strength to either Teak or Hard maple. Strength qualities in compression parallel to grain are exceptionally high. It is hard harder than Teak, and does not marr or dent easily. It is a very heavy wood. The density of the wood is very high.

Finishing: May be difficult to stain.

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  • Mirage Hardwood Floors
  • Mullican Hardwood Floors
  • Somerset Hardwood Floors
  • Superior Hardwood Floors
  • Triangulo Exotic Flooring
  • Janka Ratings
  • Wood Relative Stability
  • Acacia
  • Amendoim
  • Black Walnut
  • Birch
  • Brazilian Cherry
  • Brazilian Teak/Cumaru
  • Brazilian Walnut/IPE
  • Hickory / Pecan
  • Pine
  • Red Oak
  • Santos Mahogany/Cabreuva
  • Sapele African Mahogany
  • Brazilian Tigerwood Koa
  • White Oak
  • Armstrong Vinyl Flooring
  • BeauFlor Vinyl n Laminate
  • Mannington DuraMax Vinyl
  • Tarkett ProGen Vinyl
  • CoreTec Plus Vinyl
  • Formaldehyde Free Floors
  • Installers n Contractors
  • Relative Humidity Control
  • Flooring Warranty
  • Terms n Conditions

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1677 Lincoln Highway, 2nd Floor Rear, Edison, NJ 08817

Phone: (732) 287-9979 Email: njfloor@gmail.com

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