working with black limba

[lrogers]

Getting ready to start a baby doll bed for the granddaughter and went to get some walnut. The walnut didn't look too good, the mahogany looked real nice, but so was the price. I found a piece of black limba that was really beautiful and had a very good price so it came home with me.

Not only have I never worked with this wood, until yesterday, I had never heard of it! Any thing I should be aware of working with this stuff?

[lrogers]

Looks like I'm going to be the " test dummy" on this project. I'll let you all know what I discover about this wood as the project progresses.

[Uncle Cracker]

Seen pictures of it, but haven't even seen it for sale in my area, so I haven't worked with it... yet...

[Jeffrey Schronce]

Supposed to be a breeze to work with being relatively soft and not very prone to tear out.

Make sure there is no allergy potential for this wood. Have to be careful with imported woods. Heck you have to even be careful with domestic woods. Some folks are allergic to Walnut and a full 20% of people are allergic to red cedar. Now understand the finish could seal some of the potential problems, but I personally can not be near fish tail oak. That stuff kills me, even the stuff I have finished with poly!

[gerti]

Wikipedia is increasingly becoming my favorite source to look up things:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminalia_superba

[lrogers]

COOL! I never thought of wikipedia. One thing for sure, it's pretty wood. When I finish with the doll bed, I'm going to use some of the left overs and try a bandsaw box. See, I told you all you'd force me to try one!

[Russianwolf]

made some things with it. Nice wood if alittle on the lite side.

I have an 8/4 piece in the shop thats waiting for inspiration.