Ziricote Wood
Ziricote is an exotic wood native to the Central American countries of Belize Guatemala and Mexico.
Ziricote wood. Ziricote wood has a medium to fine texture and a straight to slightly interlocking grain. Some lumber will have occasional very faint hairline checks in black streaks or a minor end check that should be easy to work with or around. Ziricote is excellent for wood turning and carving as well as knife handles furniture and cabinets.
It is a superior furniture and musical instrument lumber. Quartersawn surfaces will sometimes display ray or flake patterns similar to Hard Maple. Ziricote is a tonewood with unique look and color ranging from soft to dark brown with intermittent shades of green or purple hue and stripes of black growth rings.
Often compared visually to Brazilian rosewood but with inky black lines and darker ghostlike grey tones ziricote also boasts a natural reverb that surrounds both player and audience. Sign up for our newsletter. It is used for furniture veneer cabinetry flooring gun stocks musical instruments including guitars and ukuleles entrance doors turnings decorative beams trim and small specialty items.
Renown for its landscape or spiderweb grain patterns its colors range from medium to dark shades of brown occasionally with either a green or purplish tint and are accentuated by intermingled bands of unpredictable irregular black growth rings. With its very fine texture and high density Ziricote will. Though the wood is stable once dry.
Also pieces are usually available in narrow boards or turning squares with sapwood being very common. It produces bright orange flowers. These are usually near or on the sapwood.
Overall Ziricote is fairly easy to work considering its high density. Ziricote Favored by classical baroque and flamenco players ziricotes allure comes from its rich booming bass response matched only by its luminous treble. Ziricote is a deciduous tree native to the Yucatan Peninsula thriving in calcium-rich soils with outcropping rocks where it attains hights of up to 30 meters.