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Veneer Chestnut smoked
BackWood speciesChestnut smoked
Bot. NameCastanea sativa
Tradename EnSmoke Chestnut
Type
Deciduous tree
Price
Color
Black
Thickness
0.6 /
0.9 mm
Wood Structure
Quarter Cut,
Crown Cut
SurfaceSmooth
TreatmentSmoked
Country of harvestEurope
Usages
Interior,
Furniture,
Door
Certification
available as FSC 100% & FSC-CW
NoteWhen smoking wood, the tannic acid present in the wood reacts with ammonia. At the end of the process, the ammonia is neutralized with sulfuric acid. This leaves a fertilizer, which is used in agriculture. After the smoking process the wood gets a durable, attractive and very light-stable dark color.
Since ammonia may still be bound in the cell walls of the smoked wood in isolated cases, it is recommended to allow the veneer sheets to air well (approx. 3 - 4 hours) after cutting them to width and before joining them together. This allows clean joint gluing without any problems.
Since ammonia may still be bound in the cell walls of the smoked wood in isolated cases, it is recommended to allow the veneer sheets to air well (approx. 3 - 4 hours) after cutting them to width and before joining them together. This allows clean joint gluing without any problems.
Detailed Description
A fast-growing, large tree up to 25 m high with diameters of up to 120 cm. Due to the strong cane deflection, the shaft is rarely knot-free above 10 to 12 m. The sweet chestnut reaches a very high age. The bark is shiny red-brown on annual branches with white lenticels, on perennial olive-brown, stained by lichen, and shows bark formation after the 15th year. It is grey-brown with longitudinal cracks and contains about 12% tannic acid.
Tradenames and other names
Bot. Name: Castanea sativa
Tradename De: Edelkastanie geräuchert
Tradename En: Smoke Chestnut
Properties
Raw density: 540 - 620 Kg/m3
Occurrence
The chestnut originates from Asia and was cultivated in Europe in ancient times, so that the main occurrence today is still in the countries of the Mediterranean area, especially in Portugal, Spain, Italy, the Balkans, North Africa and Asia Minor to the Caspian Sea. North of the Alps, the chestnut is found especially in Switzerland, southern Germany, southern and western France and southern England.
Characteristic and wood color
Sapwood and heartwood well separated. The sapwood is very narrow and dirty yellowish white, while the heartwood is light brown and shiny when freshly cut, later darkening. The wood is similar in colour and texture to European oak, but is more delicately flamed, in radial cut without mirror and in tangential cut not lengthwise striped. The medullary rays are narrow. Growth zones are just visible to the naked eye. The structure is rather fine and long-fibred.
