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By the way, my friend’s house is being renovated recently and he wants to use solid wood for decoration, so he asked me who works in the wood industry what kind of wood is better, provided that it looks high-end and classy, and the price is not too expensive.
As a "non-famous" wood worker who has been immersed in the wood industry for nearly ten years, this editor thought about it and finally decided to recommend Sapele to his friends.
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So, what kind of wood is Sapele? Let me tell you about it now.
Let me first give you some basic knowledge.
Sapele
Scientific name: African chinaberry
Latin name: Entandrophragma cylindricum
Common name: Sapele, red shadow wood
Large trees with few or no buttress roots, often reaching 45 meters tall with a straight trunk and 12-21 meters below the branches. Their diameter at breast height often exceeds 100 cm, and sparse, shallow longitudinal grooves are common on the wood surface. This genus contains nine species, a hardwood miscellaneous wood that matures over decades to centuries, and is a common timber species in Africa. It is found in tropical Africa, from Aboudikro (Côte d'Ivoire), Penkwa (Ghana), and Sapele-wood, Sapelli-mahagoni, Ubilesan (Nigeria), to Sapelli (Cameroon), eastward to Muyovu (Uganda) and Undianuno (Angola and Congo).
Lustrous and rosin-like aroma. Interlaced grain; medium texture; moderate weight, strength, and shrinkage. Easy to work, but easily blunts saws; paints, glues, nails, and polishes well; corrosive to metals. Slightly corrosion-resistant. Slightly slow to dry, with slight end cracking and deformation. Air-dry density 0.58-0.66 g/cm³.
Simply put, Sapele is reddish-brown in color, with rough wood texture, a shiny and three-dimensional texture, a free and unique beauty and strong plasticity. At the same time, the surface of Sapele also has many advantages such as environmental protection, odorless, wear-resistant, high-temperature flame retardant, acid and alkali resistant, aging-resistant, not easy to delaminate, and color stable.
Due to its own characteristics, Sapele has a strong cultural atmosphere and noble quality. It is a good material among traditional decoration building materials. It is very suitable for making doors and windows, floors and mid-range furniture, interior decorative accessories and wall panels; cabinets, indoor and outdoor joinery products, ships, and sliced decorative veneers, etc. It is a good "face" for home.
Of course, every advantage has its disadvantages. Sapele's main disadvantage is its brittleness. Therefore, when choosing, you should choose Sapele from the Congo. Sapele from the Congo has a straighter grain and is more stable than Sapele from other origins.
Speaking of fakes, there's a type of wood currently on the market called "imitation sapele" or "fake sapele." Common varieties include African neem (African china) and African neem (African china). It's primarily produced in Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, and Nigeria. I won't go into the specifics of the wood here, but I'll discuss "imitation sapele" later.
Since these woods are very similar to Sapele in appearance, but the price is only 2/3 or even half of Sapele, they are also used by some unscrupulous merchants to impersonate Sapele. Therefore, consumers should pay more attention when purchasing finished products.
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In fact, we often pay more attention to high-end materials such as rosewood, but rosewood furniture is relatively expensive and ordinary people can't afford it. As a second choice, choosing mid-range materials is also a good choice. In the mid-range market, Sapele is definitely the king of mid-range prices. Friends who want to decorate can learn about it.