Pencil Cedar
Pencil Cedar is a high quality hardwood. Due to its ease of working, uniform colour, fine texture and finishing characteristics, it is highly favoured in Japan for prestige cabinet work and custom-made furniture where it has been marketed successfully as 'royal cherry'.
The timbers work well with both machine and hand tools and have excellent moulding characteristics producing a smooth, high class surface. Timber with silica present is harder to work with and can cause moderate blunting of cutting edges, but a good smooth finish can always be obtained.
Pencil Cedar is highly regarded for quality furniture and cabinet work as well as for premium mouldings. It has been long recognised as a prime face material for plywood. Ideally suitable for high quality joinery including window and door, frames, louvre blades, shutters, interior wall linings, mouldings and turning; and as a domestic flooring material. Also suitable for a number of boat-building applications including masts, spars and interior fit-outs.
Botanical Name:
Palaquium warburgianum spp.
Standard Trade Names:
Pencil Cedar
Other Names:
Red silkwood, bauvudi, sacau (Fiji), faibaru, maliolo (Solomon Is.) nato, red nato (Philippines) pali, njatuh, balam, punti, nantu, siki, soko (Indonesia) kha-nunnok (Thailand) Bauvudi, saPalaquium Species, principally P.
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Stocked:
Yes
Availability:
Available ex-stock in kiln dried sizes from 50 to 150mm wide and 25, 40, 50, 75 and 100mm thicknesses.
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