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Wholesale Spanish Cedar Lumber Stock Information
| GRADES: | FAS/SEL |
| CUTS: | Mixed Grain |
| SIZES: | 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 8/4 |
| DRYING: | Kiln-Dried (KD) |
| WHOLESALE MINIMUM: | 1,000 board feet and up |
Species Information
BOTANICAL NAME: Cedrela odorata
Spanish Cedar is favored for millwork, cabinets, fine furniture, musical instruments, boat building, patterns, decorative veneers, decorative and utility plywoods, cigar wrappers, and cigar boxes.
| OTHER NAMES: |
Cedro |
| ORIGIN: | Tropical Central and South America |
| APPEARANCE: | Heartwood pinkish- to reddish brown when freshly cut, becoming red or dark reddish brown, sometimes with a purplish tinge, after exposure; sharply to rather poorly demarcated from the pinkish to white sapwood. Grain usually straight, sometimes interlocked; texture rather fine and uniform to coarse and uneven; luster medium to high and golden; distinctive cedary odor usually pronounced, some specimens with bitter taste |
| DENSITY: | Janka scale hardness is 600 for dry material |
| WEIGHT: | 23 – 47 lbs. / cu. ft., or approximately 1.9 – 3.9 lbs. per board foot |
| DRYING: | Easy to air-season or kiln-dry, slight warp with little or no checking |
| WORKABILITY: | Cedro is easy to work with hand and machine tools but somewhat difficult to bore cleanly. Easy to cut into veneer but with some tendency for wooly surfaces to occur; good nailing and gluing properties |
| DURABILITY: | Heartwood is rated as durable but there is some variability within species; resistant to both subterranean and dry-wood termites. Low resistance to attack by marine borers. Wood has excellent weathering characteristics |
| PRESERVATION: | Heartwood is reported to be extremely resistant to preservation treatments. Reports on treatability of sapwood are conflicting |
| FINISHING: | Stains and finishes well but gums and oils sometimes are a problem in polishing |
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