Savage woods imports rare tropical hardwood and specializes in lumber turning blanks and luthier sets including ziricote cocobolo granadillo katalox and several other musical grade tonewoods.
Chakte kok hardwood.
Redheart is a dense fine textured hardwood from central america with a beautiful red heartwood color.
Another species that s also in the rubiaceæ family is cosmocalyx spectabilis which is typically sold interchangeably as chakte kok.
Chakte viga is a tropical hardwood from mexico.
The grain is typically straight but can interlocking.
The heartwood color varies slightly from pale to rich reddish orange.
Chakte viga is sometimes referred to as paela.
Turned objects inlays veneer fine furniture and small specialty wood items.
Commonly called chakte kok with a multitude of.
Upon exposure to sunlight the wood turns to a mundane brown color but.
Chakte kok is an interesting wood and one of only a few in the world that naturally displays a brilliant bright red color tone.
Also know as red heart.
Sadly does not hold colour well in uv light.
Redheart is a unique central south american hardwood characterized by a reddish base color ranging from dull to bright pink pinkish red or red with streaks and highlights diverse in color from darker red tones to yellows oranges and even occasional purples.
Turns glues and finishes well.
Grains range from irregular to wild although sometimes straight also and can often be multi dimensional or overlapping.
This extreme color will oxidize and fade within minutes if exposed to direct sunlight therefore the use of a good uv inhibitor is required.
It is reported to have good tonal qualities and is popular in both instrument building and wood turning.
Previous cedar yellow next chechen.
Redheart is a difficult lumber to dry but when cured properly it makes beautiful furniture.
Hardwoods softwoods chakte kok.
Fine closed grain makes this central american hardwood machine easily finish well.
Commonly called chakte kok with a multitude of variant spellings this species has been previously placed in the sickingia genus.
The mayans refer to this hardwood is chakte koke.
This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices or on the iucn red list of threatened species.
Chakte viga has been used as a fence post material with reports stating that the wood lasts up to 100 years in the ground.
For best results in finishing please use a uv inhibitor as the wood turns.
Tends to be on the medium to high side for an imported hardwood.
As with many red colored woods such as padauk and bloodwood redheart will oxidize to a brown color if not protected by a uv blocking finish.
Tends to be on the medium to high side for an imported hardwood.
Bright pink blood red medium density.
