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KauriKauri
Kauri (Agathis moorei)

Family: Araucariaceae

Common names: Agathis, Almaciga, Bindang, Dakua makadre, Damar minyak, Kauri, Kauri pine, Menghilan, Red kaori, Tolong, White kaori

Distributed in: New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea (Oceania and S.E. Asia)

Distribution overview: Grows primarily in New Caledonia. It is a species of tropical, lowland, moist, open forest occurring on shales, sandstones, and schists up to 1000m.

Common uses: Bobbins, Building materials, Core Stock, Decorative plywood, Decorative veneer, Domestic flooring, Excelsior, Figured veneer, Flooring, Interior construction, Interior trim, Joinery, Millwork, Moldings, Paneling , Parquet flooring, Picker sticks, Plain veneer, Plywood, Shade rollers, Shuttles, Specialty items, Spindles, Spools, Stencil & chisel blocks, Structural plywood, Sub-flooring, Sucker rods, Trimming, Umbrella handles , Utility plywood, Veneer, Wainscotting

Environment profile: The future survival of this species is at risk

Tree size: Trunk diameter is 150-200 cm The trees are capable of reaching a height of 200 feet (60 m)

Colors: the heart isYellow, Yellow to golden-yellow to orangeand the sapwoodColor not distinct from heartwood, Yellow.The grain isStraight, the textureFineand the lusterOften lustrous

Natural durability: Durable Medium to high resistance

Odor: No specific smell or taste

Kiln Schedules: 10 - D5S (4/4) U

Drying Defects: Seasons well without degrade

Ease of Drying: Reconditioning Treatement

Boring: Fairly easy to very easy

Carving: Fairly difficult to carve

Cutting Resistance: Easy to saw

Gluing: Very good gluing properties

Mortising: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Moulding: Very Good to Excellent

Movement in Service: Very Good to Excellent

Nailing: Pre-boring recommended, Satisfactory nailing properties

Planing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Resistance to Impregnation: Resistant sapwood

Response to hand tools: Works well with hand tools

Routing recessing: Routing is easy

Sanding: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult The wood is fairly difficult to sand due to its resin content.

Screwing: Good screwing properties, Very Good to Excellent Results; Turning: Interlocked or cross grain

Painting: Little or no surface prep required; Polishing: Good; Staining: Very Good to Excellent;

  • Numerical data Metric
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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity 0,37
Density 512 kg/m3
Bending Strength 517 866 kg/cm2
Crushing Strength 231 416 kg/cm2
Hardness 348 kg
Impact Strength cm
Shearing Strength 150 kg/cm2
Stiffness 99 128 1000 kg/cm2
Tangential Shrinkage %
Radial Shrinkage 3 %
Weight 496 400 kg/m3
Maximum Load cm-kg/cm3
Toughness cm-kg
Static Bending kg/cm2
Item Green Dry English
Bending Strength 7360 12328 psi
Density 32 lbs/ft3
Hardness 769 lbs
Maximum Crushing Strength 3295 5920 psi
Shearing Strength 2136 psi
Stiffness 1413 1830 1000 psi
Specific Gravity 0.37
Weight 31 25. lbs/ft3
Radial Shrinkage 3 %
Tangential Shrinkage 5 %

Resists denting and marring
Hardness = medium
Density = high
Compression strength (parallel to grain) = medium
Bending strength (MOR) = high

Boone, R.S., C.J. Kozlik, P.J. Bois, E.M. Wengert. 1988. Dry Kiln Schedules for Commercial Hardwoods -Temperate and Tropical. USDA, Forest Service, General Technical Report FPL-GTR-57, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin.Chudnoff, M.,1984,Tropical Timbers of the World,U.S.A. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products,Laboratory, Madison.Keating, W.G., Bolza, E.,1982,Characteristics properties and uses of timbers. South East Asia, Northern,Australia and the Pacific,C.S.I.R.O. Div. Chemical Technology,Inkata Press,1WCMC. 1992. Conservation Status Listing - Trees and Timbers of the World. World Conservation Monitoring Center-Plants Programme, Cambridge, CB3 ODL, United Kingdom.
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