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Okoume

Okume wood (English name: Okoume) ' King of trees in Africa, ' said. Located in Central and West Africa. The main from Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Malaysia and other imports. Mainly used as musical instruments, high-end furniture wood. During World War II the Allied occupation of North Africa after heavy use of the lumber used in the manufacture of gunstocks. Said on June 6, 1944 the allies ' Normandy ' landing also used the wood for naval defense.

Place name
Chinese name: okoume, Joan Ockman, red Walnut
Other names: oak beauty, Gabon olive, mahogany
Okoume (France), Combo combo, Angouma, Moukoumi, N' koumi (Gabon), N' Kumi (Congo), Okaka, azouga, Gaboon (United Kingdom), Mofoumou, Okume, N' goumi (Equatorial Guinea), OkumeKhaya Dominican Republic Cambogala, Ozonga (West Africa).

Structural feature
Bark thickness 0.5~0.8cm, soft quality, easy to block peeling. Skin grey-brown; Small flake off residual shallow pits; Thin skin hole density. Endothelial deep reddish-brown; Fiber developed, joining strips. The fresh bark flakes, wood table end of his skin is red and yellow. Cross section: sapwood and the difference is obvious. Heartwood is orange to reddish. Sapwood is grey. Growth ring is obvious. For single hole complex fabrication of very small diameter (2~3). Axial parenchyma rarely under the magnifying glass. Ray clearly under the magnifying glass, and to keys.

Wood properties
Silica, the tool easily blunt; When wavy finish or Sheen, odourless. Wooden structure is exquisite, chromatic aberration is small, straight, less scar surface moist; Corrosion-resistant, high strength, good toughness, strong nail holding power, air dry density of 660 per cubic meter, or 0.48kg/cubic centimeters, bending strength, moderate, good steam bending properties, after they have been processed, and smooth cutting surface, after they have been dried and cut a straight puzzle not easily deformed cracking, is the production of musical instruments, rifle butts, high-grade furniture wood.

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Finished furniture

Table

Desk

Big bed