what knid of wood is rose-wood?
is it soft, hard fine??? i really need to know
2006-11-22 13:41:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Genius Dalbergia...All rosewood belongs to this genius.
It is a beautiful hard wood found in most tropical areas.
In Asia some of the finest furniture is made of Rosewood, in South America Furniture and guitars. Even perfume oils come from the Rosewood tree!
2006-11-22 16:02:29 · answer #1 · answered by bugsie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look it up in your dictionary, and you will find:
"any of a number of valuable hard, reddish, black-streaked woods, sometimes with a rose like odor, obtained from certain tropical trees (esp. genus Dalbergia) of the legume family and used in making furniture, pianos,etc."
My personal experience with rosewood is a jewelry box my aunt had. It was beautifully marked with streaks and swirls, very fine grained and rock hard. I have read that because of the demand and unrestrained cutting of the trees, it has been nearly wiped out and so the price for new items make of rosewood has gone up. As with all hard woods, the trees are very slow growing and farming them would take 40-50 years to produce a crop. Long time to wait for a return on your investment. Like so many things, when we get greedy, we kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
2006-11-22 21:56:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Various tropical kinds of wood are called 'rosewood' because of their rose like smell or rosy color or colorful grain, the wood is hard.The following belong into this group:
Dalbergia variabilis or Brazilian Tulip tree
Dalbergia latifolia
Buginga .
Because of their rarity these trees are now grown in plantations.
2006-11-24 17:53:48 · answer #3 · answered by hildegard r 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rosewood is a good tight-grained hard wood. it is typically used for fret-boards on guitars and other instruments. Also used for the bodies of acoustic guitars
2006-11-22 21:53:15 · answer #4 · answered by Thayne B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rosewood is a very nice medium dark wood. Somewhat hard and a very uniform consistency, "homogeneous". A dark reddish-brown. You can see the grain in it, but it's still very uniform throughout.
2006-11-22 22:39:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In northern Michigan, black cherry is milled and sold as rosewood. It is not a very sturdy wood, but is dark, very tight grained and is most often used in furniture and decorative molding.
2006-11-22 22:18:57 · answer #6 · answered by leothecomm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard, they use it on alot of guitar fret boards, 4/5 of my guitars have rose wood on them. hard wood.
2006-11-22 21:43:09 · answer #7 · answered by Tim 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Now that you have the answers ,why do you need to know ? Hmmm ?
2006-11-24 00:05:47 · answer #8 · answered by surftele 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋