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Black fiddlewood
Black fiddlewood (Vitex divaricata)

Family: Verbenaceae

Common names: Black fiddlewood, Bois a agouti, Bois fidele, Fiddlewood, Higuerillo, Ofoncriollo, Pendula, Pendula blanca, Robel guayo, Roble de olor, Totumillo, White fiddlewood

Distributed in: Cuba, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Netherlands, Puerto Rico [US], Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela (Latin America, Oceania and S.E. Asia)

Common uses: Boat building (general), Boat building: decking, Boat building: planking, Cabinetmaking, Flooring, Golf club heads, Heavy construction, Joinery, Light construction, Posts, Shingles, Sporting Goods, Tool handles

Tree size: Trunk diameter is 200-250 cm

Colors: the heart isRed, Yellowand the sapwoodWhite, Yellow.The grain isOther figures are possible or common, the textureMediumand the lusterSlightly lustrous

Natural durability: Susceptible to insect attack, Very durable

Kiln Schedules: Dry at a slow speed

Kiln Drying Rate: Naturally dries slowly

Drying Defects: Slight twist/warp, Splitting

Ease of Drying: Slowly

Comments: General finishing qualities are rated as satisfactory

Blunting Effect: Little

Boring: Fairly easy to very easy

Carving: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Cutting Resistance: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult to saw

Gluing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Mortising: Very Good to Excellent

Moulding: Good finishing

Movement in Service: Good finishing

Nailing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy, Very Good to Excellent

Planing: Poor to Very Poor

Resistance to Impregnation: Resistant sapwood

Resistance to Splitting: Poor

Response to hand tools: Responds Readily

Routing recessing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Sanding: Satisfactory sanding results

Veneering qualities: Difficult to veneer

Steam bending: Fair to Good Results

Turning: Poor to Very Poor Results

Painting: Very Good to Excellent; Polishing: Very Good to Excellent; Staining: Very Good to Excellent;

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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity
Density 753 kg/m3
Bending Strength kg/cm2
Crushing Strength kg/cm2
Hardness kg
Impact Strength cm
Shearing Strength kg/cm2
Stiffness 1000 kg/cm2
Tangential Shrinkage %
Radial Shrinkage 2 %
Weight 737 592 kg/m3
Maximum Load cm-kg/cm3
Toughness cm-kg
Static Bending kg/cm2
Item Green Dry English
Density 47 lbs/ft3
Weight 46 37 lbs/ft3
Radial Shrinkage 2 %
Tangential Shrinkage 6 %

Shrinkage, Tangential = small
Shrinkage, Radial = very small
Density (dry weight) = 46-52 lbs/cu. ft.

Brooks, R.L., et al,1941,Durability tests on Untreated Timbers in Trinidad,Caribbean Forester,2(3,pp101-119Little, E.L., Wadsworth, F.H.,1964,Common Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands,U.S.A. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook,No.249Longwood, F.R.,1961,Puerto Rican Woods - Their Machining Seasoning and Related Characteristics,U.S.A. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook,No.205Marshall, R.C.,1934,Trees of Trinidad and Tobago,Government Printer Port of Spain TrinidadRecord, S.J., Hess, R.W.,1943,Timbers of the New World,Yale University PressTakahashi, A.,1975,Compilation of data on the Mechanical Properties of Foreign Woods (Part 2,Central and South America,Shimane University, Japan, Research Report on Foreign Wood No.4
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