Black palm wood for sale. Dimensions may vary 116. Below you will find stock sizes of black palm exotic wood blanks. Exotic wood turning blanks lumber. In rural india black palm beam goes for generation.
Black palm buy black palm wood turning blanks spindle stock cue stock peppermill blanks pen blanks knife blanks online in any amount you like. Black palm trees are just about the opposite of hardwood trees. The wood is also incredibly unique lacking any growth rings or other features commonly associated with wood. Black palm wood blanks.
It is specially used as beam cart shaft staff walking stick spear shaft axe handles etc where strength elasticity and durability are prime concern. Perhaps the most unique wood on this list black palm is technically a member of the grass family and therefore a monocot. It is treated as the strongest wood in india. The end grain shows the black bundles crowded together like the e.
While the wood is called black or red it actually has black or red flecks on a light or deep tan background as above. Make offer 15 x 1 x 5 black palm wood lumber blank diy material for music instrument stabilized cross cut x cut black palm knife handle blank 575 x 1875 x 1 2000. Black palm is called tal here. Borassus flabellifer country of origin.
Cook woods is a family owned and operated company in southern oregon. For the past 20 yrs its been our goal to bring you amazing exotic and domestic hardwoods that are unique rare and beautiful. Instead the wood contains varying densities of incredibly hard tough dark fibers embedded in a softer deep brown matrix. If we do not list a size that is common to your specific woodworking industry please contact us.
Palm is the only family in the monocot order. Sometimes the flecks are very close together and the piece looks almost black or reddish. Surface condition of wood blanks may be rough andor wax coated. Black palm is durable and hard with the black fibers densely packed together and surrounded by lighter colored less dense material.
The wood is basically a bundle of small straws that are fibrous. Black palm and red palm are interesting woods which come from the outer hardened area of a type of palm tree. The woody material is actually extracted from the outer layer of the tree.