Sapele
Sapele: hardness, how it works, how much it moves, what it costs and what it is used for.
- Botanical name
- Entandrophragma cylindricum
- Type
- hardwood
- Region
- Africa
- Janka hardness (lbf)Side hardness as published by The Wood Database
- 1,410 lbf
- Colour
- reddish brown, ribbon figure
- Workability
- moderate
- MovementHow much it shrinks and swells with humidity
- moderate
- Price band
- mid
- Typical uses
- Doors, furniture, veneer, instruments
- Working notes
- Interlocked grain tears out when planed against the ribbon; a common mahogany substitute.
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