Latin Name: Chlorophora Excelsa
Colour varies from light yellow to golden brown and texture is coarse, often with an interlocked grain. Works moderately easily with some dulling effect on tools and so a cutting angle of 150 is recommended. Available in air-dried dimension stock for external construction work. This is a hardwearing timber which is resistant to decay has many of the desirable features of Teak.
Uses:
Wide use for joinery, particularly in school/institutional buildings, and very suitable for laboratory and kitchen fittings. Boat building piling and marine work.
Specification:
Average length 2.7m
Range 1.8m - 4.8m
Average width 225mm
Range 100mm to 350mm
Sizes mm - S/E K/D FAS:
25mm, 32mm, 38mm, 50mm, 63mm, 75mm, 100mm
FSC - Good stocks of FSC Iroko are now available.