Globiz Black Rosewood

Globiz Black Rosewood

Two toned rosewood/black wood frame handsomely displays your material. The wide profile frame accents most home décor finishes. It has an easel back for tabletop, and likewise hangs vertically or horizontally. Global Product Type: Frames-Certificate/Document; Frame Type: Certificate; Document; Frame Material: Wood; Frame Color: Rosewood/Black.

African Rosewood, likewise known as Bubinga, comes from the Ivory Coast, Gabon and Cameroons. Bubinga is bright and rich, varying principally in colour from pinks, oranges, reds and dark browns. The heartwood may be rose-coloured with red-purple veins and darker purple stripes. African Rosewood timber has interlocking grain, is harder and heavier than Brazilian Rosewood, and has a medium-fine texture. Bubinga’s pinkish mauve cast will oxidize to a brownish-red over time. African Rosewood may be plain or mottled.

There are a lot of Mahogany species in Africa. One applied in acoustic guitar making is known as Khaya Mahogany. Khaya Mahogany is found in tropical Africa and Madagascar. Khaya Mahogany is light pink to medium brown to red brown in colour. Khaya Mahogany is superior in strength to Sapele Mahogany, another African Mahogany employed in acoustic guitar building. It has a moderately coarse texture which is on occasion interlocked, occasionally straight. Interlocked grain develops a striped figure on quartersawn surfaces (best for guitars). Like most Mahogany species Khaya Mahogany guitars are warm and clear with good balance.

The other Mahogany intimate to luthiers is Sapele Mahogany. Entandrophragma Cylindricum is found in West, Central and East African rain forests, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Zaire and Tanzania. Sapele Mahogany timber has salmon pink heartwood and pale yellow sapwood. The pink heartwood may alter to red brown with age. Sapele Mahogany wood has close texture with interlocking grain which changes in direction and may be steadily striped. Also it may have huge irregular pores, interspersed with bands of little pores. Wavy grain gives rise to very intense fiddleback or mottled figures making the aspect very 3D. Sapele Mahogany tonewood is heavier than other African Mahogany, but not as strong.

Ovangkol is comparatively new to acoustic guitar building. Guibourtia Ehie, also known as Mozambique, Shedua, Amazoue and Amazakoue is found in West Africa, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, southern Nigeria and Gabon. Ovangkol timber heartwood is yellow brown to deep chocolate brown with gray black stripes . Ovangkol timber grain is interlocked and the texture is moderately coarse. Tonally, Ovangkol back and sides sits amid strong Rosewood and the highs of Maple.

Padouk is a deep coloured timber likewise known as Pterocarpus Soyauxii, Mbe, Mbil, Mututi, Ngula and Bosulu. Padauk or Padouk is found in Central and tropical West Africa, extending from south-western Nigeria to Zaire. The timber is bright orange or almost crimson and as guitar tonewood has good, straight grain, more or less harder and heavier than Indian Rosewood, with fine to medium texture. Padouk timber oxidizes to a darker, rich purple-brown over time. Padauk guitars have a strong tone.

Wenge is a deep dark chocolate brown timber found in Zaire, Cameroon and Gabon, Africa. Millettia Laurentii tonewood is brown with evenly spaced, fine black veins and dark and light brown bands. Wenge acoustic guitar back and sides timber has a tight straight grain, throughout the entire width and a coarse texture. Wenge guitar tonewood is heavier than East Indian and Brazilian Rosewood and like most African timbers a Wenge guitar has a nice strong tone.

Zebrawood is named for it’s intense stripes. Microberlinia Brazzavillensis is found in Africa, Gabon and Cameroons. Zebrawood timber has bold colours evenly striped overall with gold-tan, yellows and dark browns. The timber has coarse to very coarse grain texture, and is similar in density to East Indian Rosewood. Tonally Zebrawood has the same resonance as East Indian Rosewood.

The cream of the African timbers for acoustic guitar building is African Blackwood, which is in truth a Rosewood. Dalbergia Melanoxylon is purplish black to dark brown with black streaks. African Blackwood timber has a fine grain and polishes well and is said by a great deal of to be better than Brazilian Rosewood. African Blackwood tonewood has splendid response, and the taptone is fantastic.

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14 of 14 humans found the following review helpful.
Attractive, classic looks at a bargain price!
By Amozarte
This frame is an idealisti choice for displaying your latest certificate of accomplishment. It marries stately looks and solid construction with low cost, resulting in an unbelievable bargain.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
classy frame, outstanding deal
By Van Royan
I was wary of buying a frame online…I was very disappointed last time with a flimsy little plastic thing. This one is very classy. Beautiful wood, real glass. The mat is thin cardboard, but does the job. For the price, this is excellent.

3 of 3 humans found the following review helpful.
It is made of NOT wood, but it’s a nice looking frame for the price.
By Vadim.Zip
This frame arrived broken due to poor packaging. But it’s looking nice. Again it’s broken so I may see what’s inside. It’s genuinely not a wood frame opposed to the description. It’s made of a great deal of light material covered with a paint so it looks like a wood frame. But it’s nice for the price and perfective for my diploma so I just ordered a alternate for it.

Update: I just got a alternate and it seems to be from a dissimilar batch. It is unquestionably heavier (so I would think the material is different, but I may not say it is wood), the labels are different, and it’s packaged in an person carton box. The packaging this time was good.

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