Sapele Vs Mahogany Doors

Rich heartwood colored in golden and dark reddish brown is perfect for use in creating expensive furniture musical and specialty objects.

Sapele vs mahogany doors. The video provides information about sapele vs african mahogany vs utile lumber presented by rob. Sapele interior doors normally a thin veneer of the wood on a cardboard honeycomb inner structure were very popular during the 1980s and 1990s although uncommon now. I use a lot of sapele here in the shop. At the same time quartersawn sapele does provide greater stability making careful consideration of application and end use key.

This is the latests in our series of videos on our blog and youtube channel for your enjoyment. Other uses for all three are interior and architectural millwork furniture. Although it works well for exterior applications such as windows and doors it is ideal for painted applications due to its fine graining. I talk about my experiences and those of my students with using sapele including how it bends how it carves the aesthetics and its mechanical properties.

The american car maker cadillac uses sapele wood for interior wood trim on its vehicles. Sapele is offered in many of our wood door styleswhen solid is noted that is the version available. It should also be noted that sapele on one guitar with different materials and construction will sound different to sapele on another and the same goes for mahogany. African mahogany sapele are also used for making windows and doors.

This of course as always depends on your particular tastes mostly. Use our wood species selector to view various types of wood doors including douglas fir maple oak cherry bamboo. Same as mahogany exploitation of sapele forests are regulated by several countries across africa. Our sapele is quarter sawn at the mill a process that creates a ribbon or stripe effect almost as if the wood glows with an internal light.

Sapele and african mahogany have gained popularity for usage in exterior mouldings including siding and soffits. Sapele features interlocking fine textured grain that frequently changes direction. The shower seat manufacturer hudson reed also use sapele wood for certain shower seats. So in the battle of sapele vs mahogany which is the better tonewood.

It is occasionally used as a substitute for genuine mahogany and is sometimes referred to as sapele mahogany technically the two genera that are commonly associated with mahogany are swietenia and khaya while sapele is in the entandrophragma genus but all three are included in the broader meliaceae family so comparisons to true mahogany may not be too far fetched.