Unfinished Flooring

This heavy, durable hardwood, Bowdichia Nitida, is an ideal wood for flooring. An unusual attribute for Sucupira wood relative to most species imports is that this hardwood will lighten in color with age.

This hardwood is a common trade name for Bubinga. To learn more about Bubinga, go here.

Striped Ebony is an attractive hardwood species with tan-brown coloring and fine black striping. With aging, Striped Ebony will darken from a golden brown to a darker brown under the black striping.

Southern Chestnut is an attractive golden-tan brown which is similar in color, graining and striping to Afrormosia. This hardwood is found across Mexico, Guatemala and Belize and with a high janka rating of 2670, makes a durable floor that can stand up to lots of traffic and abuse.

Silky Ash, Couratari, is a pale straw-tan colored hardwood with medium graining. With aging, the photosensitive Silky Ash species shows a moderate change to a darker tan.

Shedua-Mutenye is a beautiful hardwood from West and Central Africa with a tan-brown background and fine black striping. Shedua-Mutenye will darken over time from a golden brown to a darker brown under the black striping.

This hardwood is rich, dark mahogany that is both dense and stable. Santos Mahogany has a range of colors, varying between a light orange-brown with yellowish overtones to a dark reddish-purplish brown.

Santa Maria typically grows 30-50 feet tall with a relatively thin trunk 2-3 feet in diameter. This species is noted as an remarkably easy hardwood to work by hand or machine. Santa Maria responds well to polishing, glues well, and accepts finishes well.

Salinas Cherry is a brown, reddish hardwood that is, with a janka rating of 3190, extremely dense. This hardwood species has moderate steam bending qualities and turns well, and a strong finishing is highly recommended except using polyurethane. Salinas Cherry reacts badly to polyurethane, perhaps because of its strength, and should improve its luster with a careful water-based finish.

Saddlewood is a large tropical hardwood species growing throughout Central America. When the heartwood is first exposed its grain is bright yellow, but this darkens quickly to a medium brown. This lovely trait, along with its stability, have made Saddlewood, Vatairea lundellii a recently popular import for flooring.

The Royal Mahogany tree is widespread across Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, West Indies, Cuba, Trinidad, Honduras, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. This hardwood is brown to reddish brown, and more uniform in color than the comparable Honduran Mahogany. With time and sunlight, Royal Mahogany will darken to a deeper, richer brown.

The Red River Gum is a common tree spread along the watercourses of mainland Australia. This hardwood has a pretty light brown appearance with reddish-brown grain lines. The Red River Gum species readily takes staining and painting, and can be polished to a strong finish.

Red Oak, Quercus, rubra originates in North America and remains the most popular flooring choice among domestic hardwood species. This hardwood sands well, machine-works exceptionally well and attains a strong finish. These working attributes added to its density and resistance to bending makes Red Oak a natural choice for flooring. This species has a medium level photosensitivity and will darken the wood’s pinkish tan hue until golden.

Purpleheart is a very tall, handsome tree, averaging 120-150 feet in height in the jungle. The sapwood is an off-white to light cream color, while its prized heartwood, the distinct characteristic of Purpleheart, is dull brown until exposure, when it turns bright purple. This hardwood will undergo a second color change, as continued sunlight exposure will turn it back to brown with heavy purple undertones.

Peruvian Walnut, Juglans neotropica can be grown throughout Peru, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Colombia and Mexico. This hardwood has a dark brown color, black striping and uniformity which set it apart from American Walnut. Peruvian Walnut is photosensitive, its dark brown sheen will deepen into an even richer chocolate brown.