A cousin of the more popular and well-known African tonewood, Bubinga, Ovangkol/Shedua is a softer wood (of similar weight and density) with handsome, yet greatly varying aesthetics. Its heartwood color can range anywhere from a light to medium yellow, to a light orange- or reddish-brown, usually highlighted by darker brown or black striping. Its unmistakable sapwood is pale yellow in color.
Its grains can be straight, wavy or interlocked, with generally a medium texture and nice natural luster (due in part to a somewhat high silica content). It is a tough, durable wood, usually possessing fairly cooperative working properties — although its silica content can gum up blades and cutting tools, and there can be tearout issues with boards with interlocking grain patterns. Shedua turns, glues and finishes quite well.
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Sustainability: Not listed in the CITES Appendices; categorized on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as a species of “least concern.”
Common Uses: Veneer, flooring, furniture, cabinets, trim, musical instruments and turned objects.
Comments: Although it bares very little aesthetic resemblance to Bubinga, Shedua (also a member of the Guibourtia genus) can be an impressive, visually stunning exotic wood. Tiger-stripe, fiddleback and mottled figuring can be found, on occasion. Examples can vary dramatically in appearance, one from another — so much so that they could easily be thought to be of different, unrelated species.
The wood has become quite popular as a body wood with many electric guitar luthiers who are familiar with it. Some of the more dense pieces are sometimes used as fretboards, also.
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Botanical Name | Guibourtia ehie |
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Other Names | Ovangkol |
Main Color Group | Light Brown |
Grain Pattern | Even |
Workability | Medium |
Avg Dry Weight - LB/FT3 | 51 |
Avg Dry Weight - KG/M3 | 825 |
Janka Hardness - LBF | 1330 |
Janka Hardness - Newtons | 5900 |
Image | Price | Grade | Dimensions | SKU | Buy | Description | hf:att:pa_grade | ||||||||||||
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R620.68 | A | 224.5 × 14.4 × 2.1 cm | SHED1008 |
| Beautiful board with colour variation but has a few worm holes. | a | |||||||||||||
R606.90 | A | 218 × 14.5 × 2 cm | SHED1007 |
| Beautiful board but has a few minor cracks In the middle | a | |||||||||||||
R602.72 | A | 218 × 14.4 × 2 cm | SHED1006 |
| Beautiful board but has a few minor cracks In the middle | a | |||||||||||||
R616.10 | A | 224.4 × 14.3 × 2 cm | SHED1005 |
| Beautiful board with colour variation but has a few worm holes. | a | |||||||||||||
R736.41 | A | 223 × 17.2 × 2.1 cm | SHED1004 |
| Beautiful board with a few worm holes. Slightly, curved corner on 1 of the sides. | a | |||||||||||||
R571.98 | AB | 226 × 14.5 × 2.2 cm | SHED1003 |
| Lovely board with a few worm holes and 20 cm crack on top of board | ab | |||||||||||||
R464.98 | AB | 222 × 12 × 2.3 cm | SHED1002 |
| Nice board with minor cracks on 1 surface. Has a small mark in the middle of 1 surface | ab | |||||||||||||
R369.44 | AB | 222.8 × 9.5 × 2.1 cm | SHED1001 |
Out of stock
| lovely board with minor surface defects. Few worm holes and a 10cm crack on top of the board | ab |
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