Ziricote

Quartersawn surfaces can also have ray flakes similar in appearance to those found on quartersawn Hard Maple. Renown for its “landscape” or “spiderweb” grain patterns, its colors range from medium to dark shades of brown (occasionally with either a green or purplish tint), and are accentuated by intermingled bands of unpredictable, irregular black growth rings. It is a har dense woo with a medium texture. The color ranges from reddish brown to dark brown with unusual black streaks.

What does ziricote mean? Is ziricote a good wood? Beautiful spider-webbing is present with amazing patterns.

Often compared visually to Brazilian rosewoo but with inky black lines and darker, ghostlike grey tones, ziricote also boasts a natural reverb that surrounds both player and audience. Cordia is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains about 3species of shrubs and trees , that are found worldwide, mostly in warmer regions.

Many of the species are commonly called manjack , while bocote may refer to several Central American species in Spanish. Get The Gear You Need Today With Our Financing Options. The unique nature of ziricote’s grain has been described as spider webbing by some.

Most of the harvesting occurs in Central America, specifically Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. Designers seek it out for its unrepeatable grain patterns—spider webbing, marbling, cloudbursts, hill and valley patterns, and more. The trunk is straight but short. The reddish-brown heartwood is nicely contrasted by creamy sapwood.

Contains irregular wavy grain, sometimes with a three dimensional appearance. This wood has the appearance of ebony, with a even more interesting wavy grain pattern. The ziricote is also known as ziracote or ciricote. The scientific name is cordia dodecandra. It grows throughout Central America, Southern Mexico and also in the Caribbean.

A pleasing ray or fleck figure is visible in quartersawn stock. Majority sap, but with outstanding heartwood with extra heavy curl figure in it. Very artistic indeed.

There is a crack in the pretty part but it goes with the grain pattern and would fill and become invisible. It produces bright orange flowers. Ziricote Botanical Name: (Cordia dodecandra) From Mexico. It grows from Mexico through Central America and is easy to work with, turns and finishes well. The heartwood is reddish brown with irregular chocolate or black streaks.

It is one of the more expensive exotic hardwoods due to the demand. The medium to dark brown coloring has a gray cast and strong black lines that can be compared to a landscape pattern. Its widely used for custom stringed instruments as well as inlay work on small furniture or jewelry boxes.

Marbled swirls, cloud bursts, mountains, valleys and other captivating patterns are abstract visions often seen in this rare wood. Only at Sweetwater ! Always visually stunning, it is denser than most rosewoods, but both its tonal and aesthetic qualities are excellent. Renown for its landscape or spiderweb grain patterns, its colors range from medium to dark shades of brown (occasionally with either a green or purplish tint), and are accentuated by intermingled bands of unpredictable, irregular black growth rings. ZIRICOTE (Cordia dodecandra ) A tree of zericote. Family: Boraginaceae.

Other names: Ciricote, copite, cupate. This ziricote -topped instrument sports a stunning finish as well as powerful Wolfgang humbuckers and a Floyd Rose Special for a serious eruption of rock-and-roll madness. The stable, oiled-finish, baked-maple neck is graphite reinforced and the rolled-edge, compound-radius, roasted-maple fingerboard is fast, fast, fast.

Check our Woodshop today. So yesterday I applied a thin coat on the ziricote and a few on the bocote to see how they look.