Bubinga is the wood of trees of the species Guibourtia tessmannii and Guibourtia demeusei from the genus Guibourtia of the Legume family.
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| Types of trees | Guibourtia tessmannii and Guibourtia demeusei |
| Origin | tropical africa |
| Physical properties | |
| Average density | 760 kg / m³ |
| Density limits | 720-880 kg / m³ |
| Hardness | Yankee 2690 [1] |
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Other names
African rosewood, akume, bubinga, ebana, essingang, quazingo, keuazingo, okweni, ovang, waka.
Properties
Hard and dense bubing wood has distinct annual rings and usually has a beautiful texture due to the frequent change of fiber growth direction and other growth deviations.
The core wood is clearly distinguishable by color from sapwood and has a red-brown general tone, with stripes from dark red to purple. The smell is faint or absent.
Application
It is often used in the manufacture of harps and other musical instruments, such as classical guitars (for example, the Manuel Rodriguez Caballero 11 guitar), bass guitars, due to its rich and deep sound, as well as for the drum cadence.
Bubinga is sometimes used in the manufacture of bows , in particular as the main material of the handle on some flat bows.
It is used for the manufacture of handle knives, mainly hunting, tourist.
Finds application in the manufacture of furniture. Bubing trees have a significant size, which allows you to get large boards, from which, after a small number of technological operations, whole tabletops are made.
It is used, for example, in the interior design of cars, as the basis for temples in sunglasses and in the handles for Opinel knives.