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AraribaArariba
Arariba (Sickingia salvadorense)

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Common names: Acajou de Cuba, Acajou de St. Domingue, Aguano, Arariba, Caoba, Caoba de Santo Domingo, Caoba dominicana, Caobilla, Chiculte, Cobano, Cuban mahogany, Dominican mahogany, Gateado, Jamaica mahogany, Madiera, Mahog, Mahogany, Mongo, Orura

Distributed in: Brazil, Columbia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela (Central America, Latin America)

Distribution overview: Grown mainly in continental tropical America, from southern Mexico to southern Brazil and Paraguay.

Common uses: Building materials, Cabinetmaking, Ceiling, Crossties, Decorative veneer, Domestic flooring, Exterior trim & siding, Exterior uses, Factory flooring, Figured veneer, Flooring, Furniture components, Furniture squares or stock, Interior construction, Interior trim, Light construction, Millwork, Moldings, Office furniture, Paneling , Parquet flooring, Railroad ties, Shakes, Sheathing, Shingles, Siding, Stairrails, Stairworks, Sub-flooring, Trimming, Veneer

Environment profile: Status has not been officially assessed

Tree size: Trunk diameter is 100-150 cm

Colors: the heart isWhite, Yellowand the sapwoodYellow, Yellowish brown.The grain isStraight, the textureUniformand the lusterLow to medium

Natural durability: Perishable, Susceptible to insect attack

Odor: Slight bitter taste

Drying Defects: Distortion

Ease of Drying: Fairly Easy

Comments: Fine checks and worm hole are also present Waste factos is potentially high due to difficult in matching board that vary widely in color Yields red dye that has commerical applications

Boring: Good boring properties

Carving: Carves easily with ordinary tools

Cutting Resistance: Low resistance to cutting

Mortising: good

Moulding: Responds readily to ordinary tools in boring operations to produce clean surfaces

Movement in Service: Responds readily to ordinary tools in boring operations to produce clean surfaces

Planing: Planes readily

Resistance to Impregnation: Highly permeable to preservatives

Response to hand tools: Responds well to hand tools

Routing recessing: Routs easily with ordinary hand tools

Sanding: Good sanding properties

Veneering qualities: Veneers easily, Veneers moderately easy

Turning: Turned surfaces are generally clean and smooth

Polishing: Polishes and finishes well ;

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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity 0,51 0,65
Density 624 kg/m3
Bending Strength 706 942 kg/cm2
Crushing Strength 332 443 kg/cm2
Hardness kg
Impact Strength cm
Shearing Strength kg/cm2
Stiffness 84 99 1000 kg/cm2
Tangential Shrinkage 8 %
Radial Shrinkage 3 %
Weight 608 496 kg/m3
Maximum Load cm-kg/cm3
Toughness 146 cm-kg
Static Bending kg/cm2
Item Green Dry English
Bending Strength 10055 13406 psi
Density 39 lbs/ft3
Maximum Crushing Strength 4733 6303 psi
Stiffness 1200 1418. 1000 psi
Toughness 127 inch-lbs
Specific Gravity 0.51 0.65
Weight 38 31. lbs/ft3
Radial Shrinkage 3 %
Tangential Shrinkage 8 %
Volumetric Shrinkage 11 %

Heavy
Density=High
Compression strength (parallel to grain) = medium
Bending strength in the air-dry condition (about 12%moisture content)is high-comparable to Teak

Chudnoff, M.,1984,Tropical Timbers of the World,U.S.A. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products,Laboratory, Madison.Perpetua Hardwoods.Sea Star Trading Co. - Purveyors of Fine Wood.Newport, Oregon.Personal Communication, 1993.Record, S.J. and R.W. Hess. 1943. Timbers of the New World. Published on the Charles Lathrop Pack Foundation, Yale University Press, New Haven CT.WARP. 1995. Getting to Know LKS -Chakte kok -Sickingia salvadorenses. Published Results of Tests Conducted by Students at The Woodworking Centre of Ontario, Conestoga College, under the Supervision of Dennis Harlock and John Buss.Understory, Volume 5, Number 1, Fall/Winter 1995. Page 9.
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