Kahikatea
Durability: Non-durable
Colour: Medium
Sizes available: 25, 50 mm
| Trade Name: | Kahikatea |
| Botanical Species: | Podocarpus dacrydioides |
| Other Names: | White Pine |
| Country of Origin: | New Zealand |
| Air Dry Density: | 465kgs/m³ |
| Durability: | Non-durable |
| Strength: |
| Seasoning: | ||
| • | The timber dries easily and well, but there is a danger of sap-stain during air drying. | |
| • | There is small movement in service. | |
| Characteristics: | ||
| • | The creamy-white wood of kahikatea is light and easily worked. It is straight grained with a fine even texture, providing long, clear lengths in wide widths for sawing. | |
| • | It is not durable and is especially subject to damage by house borer. | |
| • | Nevertheless, it has many excellent properties including the absence of odour. | |
| Working Qualities: | ||
| • | The timber works easily and well with both hand and machine tools. | |
| • | It holds nails and screws well, glues and finishes smoothly to a surface ideal for painting, varnishing or polishing. | |
| Uses: | ||
| • | Building construction, scaffold planks, fascia boards, weatherboards (when treated), flooring, framing, joinery, kitchen furniture, boat building, domestic woodware, mouldings, casks and boxes. | |
| • | It is an excellent turnery wood. | |
| • | Also used in the manufacture of ice cream spoons and cocktail sticks, toothpicks etc. | |
| • | Selected logs converted into plywood and decorative veneers. | |
| • | It is not recommended for exterior use with stain or a dark finish. | |
| • | Often H3 treated for boat building purposes. | |
| Product Attributes: | ||
| • | The wood is odourless | |
| • | Veneers available. | |
| Product Limitations: | ||
| • | Subject to damage by house borer. | |
