KOSIPO

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DESCRIPTION

The wood is red brown with purplish glints. It darkens with light. Deposits of black resin in the pores. Ribbon like aspect on quartersawn. It has clearly demarcated sapwood. The grain is straight or interlocked and the texture is coarse. Quarter-sawn surfaces are slightly striped. Kosipo is moderately durable, being liable to powder-post beetle, pinhole borer and marine borer attacks and moderately resistant to termites. The heartwood is resistant to preservatives and the sapwood moderately resistant

  • Local Name

    Atom-Assie

  • Scientific Name

    Entandrophragma candollei

  • Other Names

    Lifuco, Diamuni, Etom, Penkwa-Akowaa, Omu, Impompo, Heavy sapele, Bakanga, Kosipo-Mahogany

SNAPSHOT

Wieght

745

Kg / M3

Hardness

6150

Janka Ranking (N)

Density

0.69

Specific Gravity

Working With Kosipo

  • General Workability
  • Wood Texture
  • Ease of Finish

COMMON USES

  • Exterior joinery
  • Interior joinery
  • Sliced veneer
  • Cabinetwork (high class furniture)
  • Interior panelling
  • Current furniture or furniture components
  • Veneer for back or face of plywood
  • Flooring
  • Stairs (inside)
  • Exterior panelling
  • Shingles
  • Light carpentry
  • Glued laminated
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