A lumberyard about 3 hours away from me is advertising African Cherry for
$2/bf. From what I have read, it is a great wood except for a high silica
content.

Has anyone used this wood, or even seen it?
I am making a cabinet to go in room where everything else is teak. I was
planning on cherry, but for the price, this seems too good to pass up. It
it chews up a few router bits it is still cheap.

"toller" wrote:

A lumberyard about 3 hours away from me is advertising African Cherry

Sounds to me like you're talking about makore.

Is this the stuff?

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/person...ics/makore.htm

VK

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"toller" wrote:

A lumberyard about 3 hours away from me is advertising African Cherry

Sounds to me like you're talking about makore.

Is this the stuff?

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/person...ics/makore.htm

VK

I haven't seen it, but the stuff is called mubango.

They also have makore, both plain and figured, but it is rather more
expensive; and I am not looking for really brittle wood. I have enough
trouble with hickory.

When Googled African cherry consistently comes back with
makore in brackets (makore). I'd always thought makore to
be more mahogany like in color (colour David) but I suppose
it's size of the pore that might be driving this naming.

During my very brief stint in the architectural stone
business I was amazed how many stones had names given to
them by a particular quarry or distributor even though they
were nothing more than a stone of a name long recognized by
the whole world (it was/is a marketing thing). It looks
like we're into that here now with a lot of the "new to us"
imports with names like African cherry.

UA100

On 19 Mar 2005 06:44:11 +0100, "Vito Kuhn" wrote:


"toller" wrote:

A lumberyard about 3 hours away from me is advertising African Cherry

Sounds to me like you're talking about makore.

Is this the stuff?

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/person...ics/makore.htm

VK

That's quite a collection of makore, some of the grain is amazing. When
the statement is made "very brittle and subject to tear-out", does that
imply a workability similar to luan? or is it better than that? The stuff
looks pretty, but the idea of working with something that splinters just
because you look at it cross-eyed wouldn't be much fun.




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Mark & Juanita wrote:
On 19 Mar 2005 06:44:11 +0100, "Vito Kuhn"
wrote:


"toller" wrote:

A lumberyard about 3 hours away from me is advertising African
Cherry

Sounds to me like you're talking about makore.

Is this the stuff?

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/person...ics/makore.htm

VK

That's quite a collection of makore, some of the grain is amazing.
When the statement is made "very brittle and subject to tear-out",
does that imply a workability similar to luan? or is it better than
that? The stuff looks pretty, but the idea of working with something
that splinters just because you look at it cross-eyed wouldn't be
much fun.

It has been many years since I've used makore but I don't recall it
being particularly hard to work. (I have no trouble at all with hickory
either which someone else mentioned).

It is hard to compare anything to "lauan"/Phillipine mahogany as it is
pretty much a generic term. There are at least four woods sold as same:
one is light, soft and works well; another is also light, much harder
and is terrible...splits, checks, splinters, tear out; still another is
light-medium red/brown, fairly soft and works well; the last is
medium-dark red/brown, harder and works well.

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