Pauduk Wood

Because it has a high resistance to abrasion has great strength and it doesn t readily decay it adapts well to cutting board stock.
Pauduk wood. Padauk is an exotic wood that is a bright orange or almost crimson wood when freshly cut but oxidizes to a darker rich purple brown over time although it stays redder than indian rosewood. It is extremely durable and rot resistant. It is known for its typically robust reddish brown coloration which darkens with age although colors can range from a bright orange to a slightly muted burgundy often with highlights grain lines and or secondary colors ranging from brick red to a more purplish muted hue. This attractive wood has high strength properties durability and outstanding stability and is deal for high class joinery furniture and cabinetmaking.
Rich orange red moderating and darkening with age to a deep red brown medium to coarse texture very stable. Bright orange red when freshly cut darkening to a reddish brown with age. A first class furniture and cabinet wood padauk also makes fine turnings carvings and musical instruments. Padauk is the first true exotic i ve worked with and i love the colors and bands of various shades in the wood but i found out quickly that tools needed to be wiped and different sheets of sand paper need to be used as the sawdust is very fine and stains hands clothes and can be imparted on other woods during sanding.
Full discussion on our blog. Two square edged boards 150mm wide and wider 1900mm long and longer dryness. Other common names are mukwa or narra p. Most species of pterocarpus yield valuable timber traded as padauk or padouk.
Slightly harder and heavier than indian rosewood it is a good wood in all respects stable and easy to work with. Also for fancy turnery and carvings tool and knife handles spirit levels paddles and oars and agricultural implements. Santalinus also yields the most precious rosewood in china known as zitan. Padauk is a moderately hard wood with a strikingly bright orange color.
The wood can sometimes be found figured ribbon. Seaworthy boats have even been made of padauk. Kiln dried other names. Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family fabaceae it belongs to the subfamily faboideae and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic pterocarpus clade within the dalbergieae.
African paduak is a very strong stable hardwood.