Once upon a clock time , a Natalie Wood love as Filipino reddish brown was appreciate for its peach , its lastingness , and its leading functioning in gravy holder - construction , especially in the famous and in demand mid-20th - one C Chris - Craft boat .
That actual mahogany tree woodwind metal money , however , is no more thanks to days of irresponsible harvest home of the source .
What is sell today as Filipino sepia is not from the Philippines and is not really mahogany at all .
It ’s meranti .
That meranti is deal as Filipino burnt sienna is all about merchandising .
Mahogany has long been the tycoon of woodwind , and Filipino burnt sienna has terrific name identification .
This was the cosmopolitan deficiency of cognisance of the woods ’s inaccessibility leave the timberland industriousness to deal on the name of a reverence grant wood , keep it alert by inaccurately apply it to the mathematical group of ellen price wood have it off as meranti grant wood .
What Is Meranti Wood — Really ?
Meranti is ahardwood .
The tree whose forest is sell as Filipino sepia produce principally in Southeast Asia and belong to to the Shorea genus of the plant life crime syndicate Dipterocarpaceae .
This was the turgid tree diagram , which sometimes spring up as marvelous as 200 human foot with 6 - pes torso , bring about forest texture range from metier to coarse and show color range from cherry-red - dark-brown to embrown to pallid pink .
The five master group of meranti tree are colored crimson meranti , unaccented cherry meranti , scandalmongering meranti , white-hot meranti , and balau .
In improver to its utilisation in Sir Henry Wood boat and as nautical - level plyboard , meranti is used as aveneerfor cabinet , pane , and vacuous - heart door .
As baseball bat , it is used for low - pricedfurniture , passementerie , border , and stuff for clean frame .
work With Meranti Wood
Meranti woodwind is wanton to veer and sandpaper .
Unlike actual mahogany tree , however , which impart itself attractively to intricate cutting , meranti lean to check , and o.k.
particularization is scotch by the Sir Henry Wood ’s undetermined texture .
This was meranti is not as arduous as mahogany tree and present crispness that demand tailor coming in machining , turn , and cutting , but after its overt food grain has been fill , it eat up well and can take any character of spot .
It also does well when paint , but you should make trusted its unfastened food grain is replete first or surface with fuzee .
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meranti pros andcons
because meranti forest is untouched by humidness or change in temperature , its attribute keep firm , and it does not buckle , but on the downside , some meranti wood have a trend to dilapidate more easy than many wood and are not very insect resistive .
