Yellowheart wrapped in Oak Wood Cross:
This beautiful cross is hand-made from Yellowheart and Oak woods:
| Yellowheart Common Name: Yellowheart. Pau Amarello. Botanical Classification: Euxylophora Paraensis
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Characteristics: This beautiful exotic and imported hardwood is a bright yellow color, darkening only a little on exposure to sunlight. There is a little differentiation between heartwood and sapwood, or between spring and summer growth rings. The color is very consistent across the wood. It is usually straight grained and uniform. It dries relatively easily with limited checking and cracking. Common Uses: Flooring - furniture - knife handles - pens - scroll work - turnings - inlays - cabinetry. Working Properties: Yellowheart is relatively easy to work with both hand and power tools. It nails adequately, glues easily and sands to a high polish. This is not an oil wood, so it finishes with relative ease. Tree is Native To: Brazil.
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| Oak Common Name: hard oak, soft oak, white oak Botanical Classification: Quercus
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Characteristics:
Oak wood has a density
of about 0.75 g/cm³, great strength and hardness, and is very resistant to
insect and fungal attack because of its high tannin content. It also has
very attractive grain markings, particularly when quarter-sawn. Common Uses: Today oakwood is still commonly used for furniture making and flooring, timber frame buildings, and for veneer production. Barrels in which red wines, sherry, brandy and spirits such as Scotch whisky and Bourbon whiskey are aged are made from European and American oak. Tree is Native to: North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America (Colombia only), Eurasia, in Africa. |
$ 45 each