Category: 1
Wood density at 12% moisture content (kg): 950
Also known as: Locust, Courbaril, Jutai
Botanical name: Hymenaea spp.
Origin: Central and South America, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, Trinidad, Panama, Surinam, Columbia
Use: Solid furniture, veneer furniture, parquet floors, decorative interior elements, or construction
Used for:
- Construction material
- Interior constructions /partitions, crossbeams, window crossbeams, etc./
- Floor parquets – very decorative – interior and exterior cladding and wood siding
- Lathe machine products, handles of various tools, mallets
- For veneers and marquetry
- Shipbuilding
- Musical instruments
- Artistic carving, sculpture
Durability: Very durable. Jatoba tolerates weather fluctuations well. It is moderately resistant to termites and resistant to molds, fungi and insects.
Wood description: Jatoba has gray-brown sapwood – 6 – 12 cm wide. Heartwood: orange to dark red brown, also purple-toned, often dark veined (veins about 1 cm wide) The wood is very hard, about 2x harder than oak, heavy and durable
Wood treatment:
Cutting: easier than its hardness would suggest, disruption by cutting – average
Drying: slow, risk of cracking
Workability: necessary use of hard metal tools
Bonding/gluing: demanding
Nailing/hammering: necessary to pre-drill holes
