Queensland Maple Flindersia brayleyana, Coffin raw materials ï¼?Light boat building (planking, decking, sawn frames, stringers, chines, gunwales), marine plywood. Has been used for aeroplane propellers, coach, vehicle and carriage building, draughtsman´s implements, gunstocks, musical instruments (piano parts, guitar necks, backs, sides and headstock) and walking sticks. Was used to some extent in general building framing in the early 1900´s,and more commonly in flooring,lining mouldings and joinery, but use in such applications has been very infrequent for some decades due to the demand for furniture timber and tightly controlled logging.
Australia Queensland Logging/Timber
Infrared forehead thermometer, hand sanitizer, medical disposable protective suits.Logistics, warehouse, cleaning agent
The heartwood is pink to brownish pink, tan- red, brown to midbrown, straw through to honey while the narrow sapwood band is
coloured white to pale grey. The lustrous sheen of the heartwood
makes for a distinctive timber. The grain is somewhat interlocked,
often wavy or curly, and the texture medium and uniform. It exhibits
a wide variety of figures including ribbon grain resulting from layers
of interlocking grain, fiddle back and ripple caused by sudden dips
in the growth rings. Some quarter sawn boards show various types
of figure such as waterwave,rib and birdseye. It is regarded as one
of the finest cabinet woods in the world.
Birdseye - Areas of dark coloured soft tissue, giving dressed
surfaces a dimpled appearance, caused by attack to the living
tree by an insect restricted to this species. This feature, though
not particularly common in wood marketed for furniture or highvalue decorative uses, is a feature for distinguishing wood of F.
brayleyana from otherwise very similar wood of F. pimenteliana
(maple silkwood)
