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Shedua

Guibourtia ehie
• Also known as |
Ovangkol
Shedua Lumber @ Rare Woods USA

A cousin of the more popular and well-known African tonewood, Bubinga, Ovangkol/Shedua is a softer wood (of similar weight and density) with handsome, yet greatly varying aesthetics. Its heartwood color can range anywhere from a light to medium yellow, to a light orange- or reddish-brown, usually highlighted by darker brown or black striping. Its unmistakable sapwood is pale yellow in color.

Its grains can be straight, wavy or interlocked, with generally a medium texture and nice natural luster (due in part to a somewhat high silica content). It is a tough, durable wood, usually possessing fairly cooperative working properties — although its silica content can gum up blades and cutting tools, and there can be tearout issues with boards with interlocking grain patterns. Shedua turns, glues and finishes quite well.

Not listed in the CITES Appendices; categorized on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as a species of “least concern.”

Why We Love This Wood

Although it bares very little aesthetic resemblance to Bubinga, Shedua (also a member of the Guibourtia genus) can be an impressive, visually stunning exotic wood. Tiger-stripe, fiddleback and mottled figuring can be found, on occasion. Examples can vary dramatically in appearance, one from another -- so much so that they could easily be thought to be of different, unrelated species.

The wood has become quite popular as a body wood with many electric guitar luthiers who are familiar with it. Some of the more dense pieces are sometimes used as fretboards, also.

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Shedua Lumber @ Rare Woods USA
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Vital Statistics
Main Color GroupMedium Brown
Grain Pattern Even
Avg Dry Weight - LB/BF4.3
Avg Dry Weight - KG/M3825
Janka Hardness - LBF1330
Janka Hardness - N5900
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Shedua-Standard-6/4Lumber
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8/4 Lumber

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SHED1095
1.38"
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$92.50

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Shedua
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1.38"
x 8" x
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Skip planed,Wormholes,Planer burn

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Shedua
SHED1093
1.44"
x 6.19" x
43.88"
Width tapers from 6.38” to 6” Planer burn,Wormholes,Skip planed,Cracks,Checks

$65.87

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Shedua
SHED1092
1.38"
x 6.5" x
43.94"
Skip planed,Planer burn,Bark inclusions,Surface defects

$77.06

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SHED1091_1
Shedua
SHED1091
1.44"
x 7.38" x
44"
Wormholes,Edge defects,Checks,Width tapers from 7.75” to 6.88”

$81.88

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SHED1090_1
Shedua
SHED1090
1.38"
x 8" x
44.13"
Skip planed,Planer burns,Bark inclusions,Knot,Surface defect,Width tapers from 8.5” to 7.5” Edge defects, Checks

$91.38

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SHED1089_1
Shedua
SHED1089
1.44"
x 6.5" x
44.06"
Skip planed,Small bow

$73.54

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SHED1088_1
Shedua
SHED1088
1.44"
x 6.5" x
44.06"
Wormholes,Small bark inclusions,Small twist,Planer burn

$73.54

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SHED1087_1
Shedua
SHED1087
1.44"
x 7.06" x
44"
Skip planed

$91.56

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SHED1086_1
Shedua
SHED1086
1.38"
x 5" x
44.06"
Checks,Slight skip planing,

$61.70

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Shedua
SHED1085
1.38"
x 5" x
43.88"
Planer burns,Skip planed,Small bow,Small edge defects

$55.87

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Shedua
SHED1084
1.38"
x 7.75" x
43.81"
Small bow,Skip planed,Wormhole, Width tapers from 8.25” to 7.69”

$84.82

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Shedua
SHED1083
1.38"
x 7.75" x
43.75"
Planer burn,Skip planed,Checks

$86.85

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Shedua
SHED1082
1.38"
x 7.63" x
44.19"
Skip planed,Wormholes,Small bow

$84.53

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SHED1081_1
Shedua
SHED1081
1.38"
x 5.44" x
43.88"
Edge defects,Checks,Cracks,Planer burn,Slightly skip planed

$62.35

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