Mango Wood

[jdwillster]

Hello I am new here and was in need of some advice. My gf would like a bookcase and really likes Mango wood seen in your high street retailers. I would like to try make this myself and wondered where I could buy the timber? I live in West Yorkshire so local if possible would be better. Thanks

James


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[woodbrains]

Hello,

It would be easier to get a new gf who preferred the wood you can actually buy here! :lol:
It would also be cheaper to buy the mango wood bookcase from the high street retailer. Think about where mango wood comes from and the wages the indigenous population is paid, it becomes clear why mango wood furniture is imported here and retails so cheaply. Aside from the fact that it is ghastly stuff.

Mike.

 

[Bodgers]

Acacia is close-ish to Mango and you might find some specialist suppliers selling it....

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[No skills]

Perhaps go on ebay and buy up cheap bits of mango furniture that others are getting rid of and butcher them for the timber, always best to go see the bits your interested in and make sure they have useful sizes on wood in them. Pictures lie and some of the joinery would even make me ashamed.

Fwiw

 

[andymf]

You can buy mango wood furniture cheap on ebay.
Think you're going to struggle to find the wood on its own i'm afraid.

 

[Tetsuaiga]

I wonder why it's not something you can find at timber deals in the UK. If its cheap and quite plentiful.

 

[Bodgers]

I wonder why it's not something you can find at timber deals in the UK. If its cheap and quite plentiful.

Because most of this stuff is made in a sweat shop at source, where the timber is cheaply available.

As a raw material there probably isn't as much demand for it - likely because it is not as nice to work with as other more common hardwoods.


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[Chrispy]

I wonder why it's not something you can find at timber deals in the UK. If its cheap and quite plentiful.

I don't know if this is the case here but I do know there are countries that have timber but very little employment so they all but ban the export of raw timber, in favor of processing it into higher value products for export. by example I recently bought from a large timber importer some Indian rosewood that had been "re-claimed" from what looked like a 8' long x 10" round turned column or such like.

 

[JohnPW]

I suppose it's similar to rubber wood, when the tree doesn't produce any more rubber or mangoes it gets used as timber, locally, to make consumer products. The timber itself is not exported.

As already said, the best source is probably unwanted furniture made from mango wood. You'd prob want fairly long boards for a bookcase, so look at table tops, wardrobes or even bookcases... :mrgreen: