Hardwood Lumber Identifier
Extensive information on domestic & exotic hardwoods.
| Sapele | |
| PHOTO | Need Photo |
| DESCRIPTION | Lustrous brown wood similar to African mahogany quarter sawn material often displays a “ribbon” figure. |
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| BOTANICAL NAME | Entadrophragma Cylindricum |
| OTHER NAMES | Sapele mahogany |
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| USES | Furniture, veneer, flooring, figured sapele in pool cues. |
| COMMENTS | Sapele has become a suitable substitute for mahogany as it is so similar.Some material is highly figured and is sold for up to ten times the market price. Sapele has many of the same machining characteristics. |
