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Cuban Mahogany

Educational resources on Cuban Mahogany

Cuban Mahogany or Swietenia mahagoni is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Endangered due to A1cd. IUCN Profile of the Cuban Mahogany

Academic web links for the Cuban Mahogany.


Forestry and Agroforestry Trees in Hawaii: ...big leaf mahogany, large leaf mahogany, Honduras mahogany Swietenia mahogani, small leaf mahogany, West Indes mahogany, Cuban mahogany, Dominican mahogany ...
http://www2.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/Data/trees.html

Hawaii Forestry Trees S: Swietenia mahogani, Cuban mahogany, Dominican mahogany, West Indes mahogany, small leaf mahogany. Family Meliaceae. Native to West Indes. ...
http://www2.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/Data/Species_Pages/Page_S.html

Wood: Guitar necks are made from mahogany and maple. Cuban mahogany is highly sought after because of its light weight, strength and beauty. ...
http://community.middlebury.edu/~sax/guitar_building/wood.htm

A-list message, [A-List] UK-Cuba links: Glasgow-Havana twinning: There is Cuban mahogany in the City Chambers, while sugar and, in particular, tobacco from Cuba helped make Glasgow a bustling metropolis in the eighteenth ...
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/a-list/2002w46/msg00011.htm

SCMRE Scientific Limits of Microscopic Wood Analysis of Objects d' ...: True Mahogany, Swietenia, 3. Tropical America, Cuban Mahogany (S. mahogani)can sometimes be separated from Honduran Mahogany (S. macrophylla) based on density. ...
http://www.si.edu/scmre/learning/limits.htm

Guitar Quality Assessment: Brazilian, Indian or Cocobolo Rosewoods, Cypress, Maple, and certain Mahoganies for backs & sides. Spanish Cedar or Cuban mahogany for necks. ...
http://students.washington.edu/yeagerd/guitarquality.php

Electronic Neanderthal Wood Sources: They even list a price for Cuban mahogany. Winkler Wood Products 261A Kekuanaoa St. Hilo, HI 96720 (808)961-6411, A source of Hawaiian exotics. ...
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~alf/en/wood.html

A Grand Tour, Visit to West Wycombe Park - Conservation News 81 ...: Constructed from Cuban mahogany with inlays of satinwood and ebony, it continues the entire three stories to the top of the house. ...
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/ukic/fw/cn/81-1.htm

banjo-l_log0209: Re: "Exotic" woods: Mexican Mahogany was one of the first species top go on the list in 73 Cuban Mahogany (there real stuff) in the early 90's,,and recently (95) Bolivia, Brazil ...
http://listproc.ucdavis.edu/archives/banjo-l/log0209/0012.html







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