Common uses are: furniture, cabinetry, musical instruments and boat – building. Origin of Honduras Mahogany: Central and South America. Meranti: Meranti is.
White oak is the timber of choice for ship and boatbuilding. It is principally used in framing and main longitudinal timbering for its density, hardness, great strength. CCA Treatment 2×8-16.
We do not (as many builders mistakenly do) build wood boats the way they were built before we had epoxies, and then simply add epoxy. This is not a good use. Boat builders like very dense grained old growth for their projects. They cannot use kiln dried stock because the cellular structure of the wood changes during the.
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