Ovangkol Wood

African Rosewood, also known as Bubinga, comes from Ca´te d'Ivoire, Gabon and Cameroon. Bubinga is bright and rich, varying greatly in color from pink, orange, red and dark brown. The heart may be pink with dark purple-red veins and purple stripes. African Rosewood timber has a grain of foreclosure it is harder and heavier than rosewood and has a medium-fine texture. Bubinga pink purple cast oxidizes to a reddish brown over time. African Rosewood can be plain or mottled. There are images of African rosewood classical steel string guitar on the site ellisguitars.com. There are many species of African mahogany. A used in the manufacture of acoustic guitar is known as Khaya mahogany. Khaya Mahogany is found in tropical Africa and Madagascar. Khaya Mahogany is light pink to medium brown to reddish brown. Khaya Mahogany is superior strength Sapele Mahogany, another African mahogany used in the construction of the acoustic guitar. It has a moderately coarse texture that is sometimes intertwined, sometimes straight. Interlocked grain produces a striped figure on quarter-surfaces (the best for guitars). Like most Mahogany species Khaya Mahogany guitars are warm and clear with good balance. The other is mahogany Sapele Mahogany familiar to luthiers. Entandrophragma cylindricum is located in Western, Central and tropical forests of Africa, Ca´te d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Zaire and Tanzania. Sapele Mahogany wood has the heart of salmon pink and pale yellow sapwood. Heartwood pink to reddish brown may change with age. Sapele Mahogany wood has a texture close grain locking that changes direction and can be regularly striped. In addition, there may be irregular pores, interspersed with bands of small pores. produces intense fiddleback curly or mottled figures making the 3D aspect. Sapele Mahogany Tonewood is heavier than other African Mahogany, but not as strong. Ovangkol is relatively new acoustic guitar. Guibourtia ehie, also known as Mozambique, Shedua, Amazoue Amazakoue and is in West Africa, Ca´te d'Ivoire, Ghana, southern Nigeria and Gabon. Ovangkol heartwood wood is yellow brown to dark chocolate with gray black stripes. Ovangkol woodgrain is locked and the texture is quite coarse. Sonically, the back and sides Ovangkol increase occurred between Rosewood and Maple tops. Padouk is a dark wood also known as Pterocarpus soyauxii, Mbe, Mbili, Mutua, and ngula Bosulu. Padauk Padauk or located in Central and tropical West Africa, stretching from south-western Nigeria to Zaire. The wood is bright orange or almost crimson and Tonewood guitar has good straight grain, slightly harder and heavier than Indian Rosewood, with fine to medium texture. Padouk timber oxidizes to a darker, purple-brown over time. Padauk guitars have a strong tone. Wenge is a deep dark chocolate brown wood found in Zaire, Cameroon and Gabon, Africa. Millettia laurentii Tonewood is brown, with regularly spaced, fine black veins and dark and light brown bands. Back Wenge wood acoustic guitar and has a tight grain sides right across the width and a coarse texture. Tonewood Wenge guitar is heavier than East Indian rosewood and like most African wood Wenge guitar has a very pleasant tone. Zebrawood is named for its strong bands. Microberlinia brazzavillensis is in Africa, Gabon and Cameroon. Zebrawood timber has bold colors striped uniform set with gold-tan, yellows and browns. The wood has a coarse to very coarse grained, and is similar to the density of East Indian rosewood. Tonale Zebrawood has the same resonance as East Indian rosewood. The cream of African timber for the construction of the acoustic guitar is African Blackwood, which is actually a rosewood. Melanoxylo Dalbergia.