Offered for sale, 1 African Blackwood (dalbergia melanoxylon) guitar fingerboard blank for guitar making projects, inlays, craft projects. This wood is also known as Mpingo wood in Africa. The fingerboard is flat sawn and parafin waxed.

You will receive 1 similar fingerboard as shown.

Size 21"x3"x3/8"

Shipped worldwide with USPS.

Quantity: 1

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Characteristics of African Blackwood:

African blackwood aka Dalbergia melanoxylon with a janka hardness of 3,670

 lbf (16,320 N) commands high prices on the commercial timber market. The

 timber is used mainly because of its maintainability, density, dimensional

stability, and moisture repellent. Those properties are particularly valued

 when used in woodwind instruments, pipe making, pool cues etc.

 Dried weight: 79 lbs/ft3 (1,270 kg/m3)

Specific Gravity (Basic, 12% MC): 1.08, 1.27

Janka Hardness: 3,670 lbf (16,320 N)

Modulus of Rupture: 30,970 lbf/in2(213.6 MPa)

Elastic Modulus: 2,603,000 lbf/in2(17.95 GPa)

Crushing Strength: 10,570 lbf/in2(72.9 MPa)

Shrinkage: Radial: 2.9%, Tangential: 4.8%