pajrul

I found these stats:

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES  

Green Density  800 kg/m?

Density at 12% m.c.  600–620 kg/m? (light)

Relative Density  0.63–0.66 (moderately heavy timber)

Volume Shrinkage  Negligible and comparable to Dark Red Meranti

Tangential 1.4%, Radial 1%

Compression Strength

(Parallel to Grain)

(Perpendicular to Grain)  32 N/mm?

4.69 N/mm?

Bending Strength

(Modulus of Rupture)  66 N/mm?

Sheer Parallel to Grain  11 N/mm?

Modulus of Elasticity  9240 N/mm?

What are the comparable stats for maple

hi all ,

i found the following on the csudh site (http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/chemdata/woods.htm)

black maple : density = 0.620 g/cc

modulus of rupture = 9.37 kg/sq mm

modulus of elasticity = 1141 kg/sq.mm

african ebony : density = 0.768

modulus of rupture = 5.55 kg /sq mm

modulus of elasticity = 1007 kg /sq mm

compare those to rubber:

rubber wood : density = 600 kg/sq m = 0.6 g/cc

promising, although i donno what this means in terms of good guitar wood properties..

thanks for the replies though.. keep it coming.

regards

norman rashid

Hi

I am new, so hello to all here. Thanks for all the great information. I find myself sitting hours on end, reading the tutorials.

I ve done a search on the net as well as over here. Nada. Rubber wood is a replenishable resource and its available here in the plentiful.. hence cheap. (I am in Malaysia.. there are more rubber trees here than there are humans). Its a dense hardwood (600+ kg/m3) used to make durable furniture, its light colored and quite attractive.

Is it sonorous enough to be a neck or fingerboard or body wood?

I hope to build myself a 5 string bass soon

(there is only 1 official luthier in all of malaysia... sheeesh)

thanks

norman rashid