March 25, 1918 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



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HUDDLESTON-MARSH 

 MAHOGANY COMPANY 



Importers and Manufacturers of 



MAHOGANY 



Lumber and Veneer 



1TS(^ LUMBER STREET 



Chicago, Illinois 



33 WEST 42nd STREET 



New York City, N.Y. 



Australian Veneer Woods 



Opportunities to Introduce Some of Them Into the United States 



HEY have some very fine colored or figured woods heaviness passes unnoticed. Handsome furniture has 



been made of it and the working of the veneer has proved 

 satisfactory. 



Another Australian wood which has been highly rec- 

 ommended for veneers is known as blackwood. The 

 name suggests that this wood may resemble ebony in 

 color, but the name is misleading in that respect. Instead 

 of being black, its color is a rich brown with a well de- 

 fined grain. It is related to the locust woods and is known 



in Australia and the people there are waking up 



to the fact that they ought to cut the woods in 



veneers in order to make them go farther. The 

 settlers in Australia, follow^ing the example of the early 

 settlers in the United States, used much of the finest woods 

 for farm use and fuel, and took no account of the value. 

 Later, railroad builders made ties of this excellent mate- 

 rial and employed it for piers and bridges. But now, it 

 is proposed to work these woods into furniture and house to botanists as "Acacia melanoxylon." The tree has been 

 finish, and employ them to the best advantage by con- planted for ornamental purposes in many tropical and 

 verting them into veneers. semi-tropical countries, including the United States, but 



Eucalyptus and blackwood are the finest of the woods the main source of the wood for commercial purposes is 

 proposed for veneers; but all species of eucalyptus are Australia. It should not be confused with the West 

 not in this class. There are more than 150 kinds of African blackwood, though the two are related botani- 

 eucalyptus in Australia and Tasmania, but a small group cally, both being pod bearers; nor is it the same as the 

 of them known as "stringbarks," are peculiarly fitted for blackwood of southern India, nor as the ebony of south- 

 veneers. The figure and general appearance of these ern Africa. 



woods suggest satinwood. They are exceptionally heavy. The Australian blackwood takes a high polish. All 



and on that account have been objected to as regular of it is not figured, but much of it is, and the well known 

 lumber; but the matter of weight is less important when patterns "mottled" and "fiddleback" belong to this wood 

 the wood is reduced to veneers, because it is employed and are the kinds most sought after 

 in thin sheets glued upon cores of lighter wood, and the The fiddleback figure suggests curly maple in pattern 



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