Materials
CHERRY
The wood is hard, strong, elastic and tough, with comparatively marked growth rings. The sap part is narrow, creamy pink to yellow, the core is red-brown, becoming redder and darker on air as time goes on. Forest trees usually have slightly darker wood, orchard trees have more pronounced color variation and their tangential cut has numerous colored stripes. Sliced veneers, massive battens or planks attract attention by their marked texture and naturally warm color. Cherry wood is easily processed and it has a slight luster. It always used to be appreciated in artistic joinery workshops. As solid wood, it is used for limited series furniture and original furniture pieces, from chairs, stands or stools, to polished cassette lined ceilings. These woody plants occur in Europe, Asia Minor and the Eastern States of the United States.
ZEBRANO
Tropical hardwood with marked stripes. Light, dark and medium brown stripes are relatively straight on radial cuts, while showing wonderful waves on fronts and sharp cut surfaces. Zebrano is distributed mainly in West Africa. The wood is used for veneer, boulles, decoration frames and in carpentry.
MAHOGANY
Hard, heavy wood of red-brown color, darkening with age, of tropical trees Swietenia candollei and Swietenia macrophylla of Meliaceae family originating from Central America, Brazil and Venezuela. Today, the name “mahogany“ is used for other woods of similar properties as well, for example for the wood of tropical trees of genera Khaya, Carapa a Soymida from Meliaceae family. Mahogany is used mainly for making furniture, veneers, and wood lining; it is easy to work with and polishes well.
AMERICAN ASH TREE
Tough and elastic ash tree wood has been prized already by ancient Greeks as excellent material to make lances and other similar weapons. Today it serves to make valuable furniture and parquetry. The American ash tree is a typical tree of coastal vegetation, lowland woods, humid soils and seashores as well as lake shores, and of hilly and mountainous landscapes ranging between 200 to 1500m above the sea level. It prefers mountain continental climatic areas and it tolerates almost any soils