Timber

AFRICAN MAHOGANY
African Mahogany is used for carpentry & joinery, furniture, cabinet work and for making decorative veneers. It is suitable for most light construction, flooring, interior trims, ship building, musical instruments, toys, carving and novelties, turnery and pulpwood.

RED CEDAR (Whismore)
Red Cedar wood is widely used for exterior and interior joinery, panelling, flooring, moulding, carpentry, furniture, cabinet work, stairs, shipbuilding - both for planks and decking and sliced veneer for interior and exterior faces of plywood.

IDIGBO
Idigbo is used in light construction, door and window frames, joinery, furniture, cabinet work, veneer and plywood. It is suitable for flooring, interior trim, vehicle bodies, sporting goods, boxes, crates, matches, turnery, hardboard, particle board and pulpwood.

AFRICAN MAPLE
African Maple is similar in colour to its American and Canadian namesake, it is widely used for interior joinery, panelling, moulding, furniture, boxes and crates, sculptures, matches, pencils, peeled and sliced veneer for interior and exterior parts of plywood, fibre and particle boards, and blockboard.

DANTA
Danta is easy to work and is hard, as well as being resistant to abrasion. It is used in exterior and interior joinery, parquetry, turnery, for staircase boards, window frames, furniture, cabinets, tool handles, mallets, and also for lorry bodies, coach/wagon work and small boats. It is excellent for wood carving. Danta wood is also suitable for making sliced veneer and plywood.

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