Stinkwood

Black Stinkwood has long been popular for use in fine furniture building in South Africa (where it is indigenous), due to its fine, tight, typically straight grains and a resolute durability that is often compared to Teak. It’s heartwood color can vary from almost black to dark brown, to more medium brown tones with a reddish tint; the sap is easily distinguished by its contrasting pale yellow coloration. Despite its inherent density, Stinkwood possesses very cooperative working properties. It has beautiful finishing characteristics and a rich natural luster.
Not listed in the CITES Appendices or on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, although the species has been classified as a “Protected Tree” in South Africa.
Why We Love This Wood
Despite its humorous name -- given for the horrid smell the trees put off when first cut -- Stinkwood has remained a tremendously popular wood with South African fine furniture craftsmen, cabinet makers and gunsmiths, alike.
The bark of the Ocotea Bullata tree has medicinal properties which, combined with the immense popularity of the tree's timber in South Africa, has led to the species being effectively extinct in a number of scattered areas throughout its (original) natural range; the bark stripping has fatal consequences for the tree.
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Main Color Group | Dark Brown |
Grain Pattern | Even |
Avg Dry Weight - LB/BF | 5.8 |
Avg Dry Weight - KG/M3 | 1120 |
Janka Hardness - LBF | 3220 |
Janka Hardness - N | 14140 |
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