Cardinal Wood / Bloodwood
Family: Moraceae - Order: Rosales -
Class: Magnoliopsida
Scientific name: Brosimum paraense / rubescens
Trade name: Muirapiranga /Cardinal wood / Bloodwood
Also known as
Brazil redwood, cardinal wood, Palo de Sangue, Falso-pau-Brasil and
Muirapiranga.
Origin: Brazil in Amazon, Amapá, Pará, Bahia e Ceará states, Suriname, Guyana, French Guyana,
Panamá, Peru
and
Venezuela.
Instrumental uses: Guitar back and sides, fingerboards,
bridges, Guitar necks, head plates, peg
heads, bows, bindings and inlays.
Tonal properties:
Very responsive. Very loud and
clear tap-tone. Sound is very loud with deep basses and a great overall
frequency response and very brilliant separation on high frequencies.
Can
be easy to work and finishes very well.
It’s a dense exotic wood with average dried weight of 66 lbs/ft3
(1,050 kg/m3)
Grows mostly in the Amazon Basin and a few more countries
of South America.This tree is
reported to have commercial lengths up to 17 m, with diameters from 45 to 60
cm. The boles are straight and cylindrical. It has abundant creamy latex. The
sapwood is not clearly demarcated from the heartwood. The heartwood is usually
deep red or pale reddish-brown in color. The grain is straight to slightly
interlocked.Very
heavy and stiff and is also very resistant.
CITES status is unrestricted. Is not reported on the IUCN Red List.
