a) General description: The heartwood is bronze orange-brown, with gum lines causing clack treaks or lines. It has moderately fine texture and is lustrous.
b) Mechanical properties: The wood has medium crushing strength, low bending strength and resistance to shock loads, and very low stiffness. Bending classification is moderate.
c) Seasoning: The wood dries fairly rapidly but requires care in seasoning as existing shakes tend to extend, and some distortion may occur.
d) Working properties: Works well with both hand and machine tools with only a slight blunting of cutting edges. it glues, stains and polishes to an excellent finish .
e) Durability: Moderately durable; the heartwood is subject to insect attack and is extremely resistant to preservative treatment and the sapwood moderately resistant.
f) Uses: Extensively used for furniture and cabinet making, paneling, joinery, shoplifting, gun stocks and rifle butts, domestic flooring, billiard tables, etc.
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