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Honduran Mahogany Wood Flooring: Exotic Wood Flooring Species: Honduran Mahogany |
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Honduran Mahogany Wood Floors Honduran Mahogany Wood Floors
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origin: Throughout tropical S.
America / C. America
/ Caribbean and in plantations in the Far EastDescription: 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)
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