Chakte Kok Hardwood

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Chakte kok hardwood.

Redheart is a dense fine textured hardwood from central america with a beautiful red heartwood color. Sadly does not hold colour well in uv light. Chakte kok is an interesting wood and one of only a few in the world that naturally displays a brilliant bright red color tone. This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices or on the iucn red list of threatened species.

The unique brilliant red color with black undertones is unusual and unmatched in other exotic hardwoods. Despite its high density chakte viga generally responds well to most machining operations though interlocked grain can result in tearout. Tends to be on the medium to high side for an imported hardwood. Fine closed grain makes this central american hardwood machine easily finish well.

Redheart is a difficult lumber to dry but when cured properly it makes beautiful furniture. As with many red colored woods such as padauk and bloodwood redheart will oxidize to a brown color if not protected by a uv blocking finish. The mayans refer to this hardwood is chakte koke. Savage woods imports rare tropical hardwood and specializes in lumber turning blanks and luthier sets including ziricote cocobolo granadillo katalox and several other musical grade tonewoods.

Chakte viga is sometimes referred to as paela. Grains range from irregular to wild although sometimes straight also and can often be multi dimensional or overlapping. It is reported to have good tonal qualities and is popular in both instrument building and wood turning. The heartwood color varies slightly from pale to rich reddish orange.

Commonly called chakte kok with a multitude of variant spellings this species has been previously placed in the sickingia genus. For best results in finishing please use a uv inhibitor as the wood turns. Chakte viga has been used as a fence post material with reports stating that the wood lasts up to 100 years in the ground. Turned objects inlays veneer fine furniture and small specialty wood items.

Commonly called chakte kok with a multitude of. Tends to be on the medium to high side for an imported hardwood. The grain is typically straight but can interlocking. Upon exposure to sunlight the wood turns to a mundane brown color but.

Bright pink blood red medium density. Another species that s also in the rubiaceæ family is cosmocalyx spectabilis which is typically sold interchangeably as chakte kok. Redheart is a unique central south american hardwood characterized by a reddish base color ranging from dull to bright pink pinkish red or red with streaks and highlights diverse in color from darker red tones to yellows oranges and even occasional purples. Previous cedar yellow next chechen.

This extreme color will oxidize and fade within minutes if exposed to direct sunlight therefore the use of a good uv inhibitor is required. Chakte kok chakte viga chechen chico zapote cocobolo gabon ebony granadillo machiche katalox tzalam ziricote cocobolo for sale.