I have two elephants from south africa they do not float.
Very dense african hardwood.
Tamboti is arguably the most beautiful wood on the african continent.
Ebony wood is a dense black brown hardwood which is dense enough to sink in water.
African blackwood as its name implies is another black colored wood.
3 use synthetic non water based glues.
It says elsewhere that black ironwood african ironwood is called olea capensis and according to the guinness book of records is the heaviest wood with a specific gravity of 1 49 whatever that means.
Formerly classified as a member of the acacia genus this south african hardwood is a tough customer.
Instead use glues that aren t water based and or glues that can bond a wider variety of materials like plastics and other non porous surfaces.
Mold fire weather and pest resistant.
Iron wood ironwood is a common name for a wide variety of african trees or shrubs that have exceptionally hard or dense wood.
African blackwood is considered to be among the hardest and densest of woods in the world.
It has the same fire rating as steel and concrete making it a more fire resistant choice than softwoods.
It is an extremely hard wood strong and stiff very stable with a fine texture.
Although the name is applied generally to trees of three unrelated genera scores of other trees are also called ironwood in local usage.
Due to its extreme hardness it is commonly used for the fretboard on a guitar.
The wood is stubbornly hard and the tree is protected by giant sharp thorns.
100 percent natural wood.
One of the most famous african woods ebony is a very dark almost black wood that is also very dense.
Three times harder than cedar.
One of the densest hardwoods it sinks in water.
Indeed among some 285 species tested including lignum vitae gabriel janka originally found african blackwood to be the very hardest.
Guibourtia spp also known as african rosewood is a beautiful dense hardwood with a rose colored background and darker purple striping.
It features a dark brown even purplish heartwood with dark streaks.
African blackwood is an exotic wood native to eastern africa and is also known as mozambique ebony or senegal ebony.