Country
origin: Throughout tropical S.
America / C. America / Caribbean and in plantations in the Far East
Description: Honduran
Mahogany wood floors are the world's traditional choice for the finest
furniture and millwork. It is used only occasionally for flooring
as it lacks sufficient hardness to hold up traffic.
Royal Mahogany is the closest substitute visually as well as
Santos Mahogany wood floors.
Color
Range: Honduran Mahogany offers a medium
degree of color variability from pale orange/browns through to
darker orangey browns.
Color Change: Honduran Mahogany, and santos mahogany wood
flooring undergoes a large degree
of color change, with pronounced darkening from a light orangey
brown when fresh cut to deep mahogany color as it fully ages
Workability: Because of its hardness, which can
make sawing and machining difficult, carbide tooling is recommended for
santos mahogany wood flooring. It sands beautifully to a high natural
polish, however, and has good holding ability.
Principal Uses:Mahogany is typically found in wood flooring,
turnery, interior trim, and furniture.
Botanical
name: Swietenia, macrophylla
Hardness: 2200
as compared to: Red oak- 1260 & N maple- 1450
(Janka chart) |