Description: Due to its weathering properties, Philippine Mahogany is an excellent exterior wood. The heartwood is dark brown, medium to deep red, sometimes w/ a purplish tinge, commonly with white dammar or reddish streaks.

Sizes available: 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 8/4

Mechanical Properties: Janka side hardness 780 to 825 lb. air dry. Shrinkage green to ovendry; radial 3.8%; tangential 7.9%; volumetric 13.3%.

Working Properties: Easy to work with hand and machine tools, dresses to a smooth finish, some tearing off interlocked grain; good gluing and nailing properties; takes a good finish.

Durability: heartwood is rated as only moderately durable and should not be used in high hazard areas; sapwood liable to attack by powder-post beetles. Not resistant to marine borers.

Uses: Joinery, furniture and cabinetwork, siding, decking, boatbuilding.

The preceding information comes from "Tropical Timbers of the World", United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Agriculture Handbook Number 607, September 1984. Martin Chudnoff, Forest Products Technologist (retired), Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis.