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Stinkwood

Ocotea bullata
Also known as |
Black Stinkwood | Cape Walnut
Stinkwood Lumber @ Rare Woods USA

Black Stinkwood has long been popular for use in fine furniture building in South Africa (where it is indigenous), due to its fine, tight, typically straight grains and a resolute durability that is often compared to Teak. It’s heartwood color can vary from almost black to dark brown, to more medium brown tones with a reddish tint; the sap is easily distinguished by its contrasting pale yellow coloration. Despite its inherent density, Stinkwood possesses very cooperative working properties. It has beautiful finishing characteristics and a rich natural luster.

Not listed in the CITES Appendices or on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, although the species has been classified as a “Protected Tree” in South Africa.

Why We Love This Wood

Despite its humorous name -- given for the horrid smell the trees put off when first cut -- Stinkwood has remained a tremendously popular wood with South African fine furniture craftsmen, cabinet makers and gunsmiths, alike.

The bark of the Ocotea Bullata tree has medicinal properties which, combined with the immense popularity of the tree's timber in South Africa, has led to the species being effectively extinct in a number of scattered areas throughout its (original) natural range; the bark stripping has fatal consequences for the tree.

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Vital Statistics
Main Color GroupDark Brown
Grain Pattern Even
Avg Dry Weight - LB/BF5.8
Avg Dry Weight - KG/M31120
Janka Hardness - LBF3220
Janka Hardness - N14140
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1"
x 7" x
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Cracks. Worm tracks.

$73.26

STINK1025_1
STINK1025
1"
x 6.5" x
45.5"
Crack. Worm tracks.

$68.63

STINK1023_1
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1"
x 7.75" x
44.44"
Cracks. Defect in end. Worm tracks.

$79.11

STINK1022_1
STINK1022
1"
x 6.19" x
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Cracks. Worm tracks. Tearout.

$64.32

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1"
x 6.75" x
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STINK1018_1
STINK1018
1"
x 12.5" x
43.06"
Cracks. Knots. Tearout. Skip planed patches.

$126.06

STINK1016_1
STINK1016
1"
x 7.13" x
33.5"
Knot holes. Crack. Checks. Skip planed patches.

$51.61

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Cracked

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