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Pucte
A very heavy, high-density hardwood tough enough for ship keels and bridges — resistant to impact, rot, and termites, with striking olive-brown streaking.
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Pucte showcases a striking range of color — yellowish to greenish-brown, often carrying an olive hue, with interwoven grain that forms distinctive longitudinal stripes running through the board. It's a very heavy wood with high resistance to impact, and its density and natural silica content make it genuinely demanding to work with standard tools — reinforced, carbide-tipped tooling is recommended when cutting given its density, and pre-drilling is advised before nailing or screwing. The payoff is a smooth, glossy finish once you've gotten past the roughing stage, along with real versatility: it's equally at home in heavy-duty flooring, furniture, and interior trim as it is in marine construction, including ship keels and bridges, particularly in environments free of marine borers. Naturally resistant to fungal and termite attack, though not to marine borers specifically.
At a glance
- Shady Lady
- Black Olive
- Bullet Tree
- Gregory Wood
At a glance
- Origin
- Bahamas, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Central Mexico, Southeast/Southwest Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
- Category
- Flooring · Outdoor Furniture
- Best for
- Residential flooring, furniture
- Working properties
- Resistant to dry-wood termites. Durable in ground contact. Relatively resistant to decay. Moderately easy to season considering its very high density. Prone to torn grain during planing. Difficult to saw and machine because of its density. Capable of taking a very smooth finish.
Spec sheet
Physical-mechanical properties
Physical-mechanical values for Pucte from the approved Final Content document.
Basic Density
850 kg/mu00b3
Specific Gravity
0.75u20130.93
Air-Dry Density
u2248 69 lb/ftu00b3 (1.02 g/cmu00b3 per ITTO)*
Radial Shrinkage
4.4%
Tangential Shrinkage
7.9%
Volumetric Shrinkage
12.2%
Texture
Fine to medium
Grain
Often interlocked
Wood Character
Very hard, very strong
Durability
Durable
MOE u2014 Bending
141,000 kg/cmu00b2 (13.83 GPa)
Elastic Limit u2014 Bending
655 kg/cmu00b2 (64.2 MPa)
MOR u2014 Bending
1,085 kg/cmu00b2 (106.4 MPa)
MOE u2014 Compression Parallel
173,800 kg/cmu00b2 (17.04 GPa)
Compression Parallel u2014 Elastic Limit
375 kg/cmu00b2 (36.8 MPa)
Compression Parallel u2014 Rupture
560 kg/cmu00b2 (54.9 MPa)
Compression Perpendicular u2014 Elastic Limit
600 kg/cmu00b2 (58.8 MPa)
Shear Parallel u2014 Rupture
585 kg/cmu00b2 (57.4 MPa)
Janka Hardness u2014 Lateral
1,065 kgf (u2248 10.45 kN)
Janka Hardness u2014 End Grain
950 kgf (u2248 9.32 kN)
Where it's used
Built for the demanding jobs
01 — Furniture
Indoor & outdoor furniture
02 — Flooring
Premium hardwood flooring
03 — Musical Instruments
Tonewood & musical instruments
04 — Marine
Marine decking & boat building
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