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Pear’s heartwood is pinkish-brown in colour with very fine rays and pores, straight grained and a very fine and even texture. Weight about 700 kg/m³ (44 lb/ft³); specific gravity .70.
Widely used for fancy turnery and excellent for carvingBrushbacks, umbrella handles, measuring instruments such as set squares and T–squaresIn Europe it is used for recorders, and when dyed black, for violin and guitar fingerboards and piano keysSelected logs of suitable diameter and clean bole are sliced for decorative veneering, the quartered surfaces often displaying a large mottled figure
Widely used for fancy turnery and excellent for carvingBrushbacks, umbrella handles, measuring instruments such as set squares and T–squaresIn Europe it is used for recorders, and when dyed black, for violin and guitar fingerboards and piano keysSelected logs of suitable diameter and clean bole are sliced for decorative veneering, the quartered surfaces often displaying a large mottled figure
For more information on Swiss Pear talk to Whitmore's Timber Co Ltd
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