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RengasRengas
Rengas (Gluta sp.)

Family: Anacardiaceae

Common names: Black varnish tree, Borneo rosewood, Gluta, Lingas, Rak, Rengas, Straights mahogany, Thayet-thitsi, Thitsi

Distributed in: India, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand (Oceania and S.E. Asia)

Distribution overview: Indo-Malaysian region (including Thailand and India), reaching into Indonesia and the Philippines, as well as Madagascar. Found in lowland forests and inland peat swamp forests and hills.

Common uses: Cabinetmaking, Decorative veneer, Furniture , Joinery, Specialty items, Turnery, Veneer

Product sources: Several species in the Melanorrhoea and Gluta genera are mixed and marketed together under the trade name Rengas.

Environment profile: Status unsure as a result of insufficient information

Tree size: Trunk diameter is 100-150 cm

Colors: the heart isBrown, Whiteand the sapwoodWhite, White to yellow.The grain isStraight to irregular, the textureUniformand the lusterLow

Natural durability: Sapwood susceptible to attack by powder post beetles, Somewhat susceptible to attack by termites

Odor: No specific smell or taste

Silica Content: Likely to have significant impact on machining

Drying Defects: Checking, Splitting

Ease of Drying: Reconditioning Treatement

Blunting Effect: Cutting edges are dulled rapidly and severely Dulling of cutting edges can be rather severe because of silica content

Boring: Fairly easy to very easy

Carving: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Cutting Resistance: Easy to saw

Gluing: Fair to Good Results

Mortising: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Moulding: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Movement in Service: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Nailing: Poor to Very Poor , Pre-Boring Recommended

Planing: Yields smooth surfaces

Resistance to Impregnation: Sapwood is permeable

Response to hand tools: Yields a smooth surface with hand tools

Routing recessing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Sanding: Very Good to Excellent Results

Steam bending: Unsuitable

Turning: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Polishing: Takes a high finish; Staining: Fairly Easy to Very Easy;

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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity 0,58
Density 737 kg/m3
Bending Strength 702 902 kg/cm2
Crushing Strength 183 577 kg/cm2
Hardness 764 kg
Impact Strength cm
Shearing Strength kg/cm2
Stiffness 117 131 1000 kg/cm2
Tangential Shrinkage %
Radial Shrinkage 3 %
Weight 721 592 kg/m3
Maximum Load cm-kg/cm3
Toughness cm-kg
Static Bending kg/cm2
Item Green Dry English
Bending Strength 9998 12833 psi
Density 46 lbs/ft3
Hardness 1686 lbs
Maximum Crushing Strength 2613 8212 psi
Stiffness 1671 1877 1000 psi
Specific Gravity 0.58
Weight 45 37. lbs/ft3
Radial Shrinkage 3 %
Tangential Shrinkage 5 %

Max. crushing strength = low
Heavy
Bending strength (MOR) = low
Rengas is heavy and dense. It has low strength properties in bending and crushing, and is very low in stiffness and resistance to shock loads.

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