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Black Limba Veneer
Pale golden limba shot through with dramatic black and gray streaking — graphic, and a mid-century staple.
Heartwood is a light yellowish to golden brown, sometimes with grey to nearly black streaks and veins. Wood with such darker figuring is referred to as Black Limba, while plain unfigured wood is called White Limba. Sapwood is a pale greyish to yellowish brown, not clearly demarcated from the heartwood. Color tends to darken with age.
Black limba is the figured heartwood of Terminalia superba, the West African tree whose plain, pale timber is sold as white limba or korina. Same log, two products: the pale outer wood is the korina of mid-century guitars and cabinetwork, and the streaked center — pale gold shot through with black and gray — is what gets specified as black limba.
That distinction is also the supply constraint. The streaking occupies only part of the log, so a black limba flitch is a fraction of what the tree yields, and the streak pattern is not consistent from one flitch to the next. It is genuinely graphic material — closer to a drawing than to a wood grain — and that means any mismatch across a seam is obvious.
Order the whole elevation at once and we will keep it in sequence. If the job is large enough that one flitch will not cover it, say so at drawing stage and we will tell you honestly whether it can be done rather than finding out halfway up the wall. Available raw, two-ply, paper-backed, and pressed to panel.
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Tell us the format, the quantity and the delivery city. Or call (502) 330-5688 — Todd will tell you honestly whether the flitch will carry the job.