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all right we’re here in the IPE shed so
that’s of course what’s in front of me
is one by six decking of eBay same
characteristics for the most part as the
other species which is naturally
resistant to insect attack naturally
resistant to fire naturally resistant to
rot and decay of course with eBay it is
the hardest going back to that Janka
scale that’s at the very bottom of the
genka scale but clustered in very
closely with three other species cumaru
masts are nuba and Purpleheart which
I’ll get to so some things to note
specifically about eBay the boards do
vary quite a bit in terms of color so
they vary board to board significantly
now it’s not that easy to tell on the
boards here in front of me because
there’s not oil on them I’ll put up an
image here on my right that will show
you a better idea of how much they can
vary but you’ll get everything from
light olive to almost a chocolate
colored board this sample is kind of a
good example of what it looks like with
oil and before oiled soap without oil of
course it’s matching the boards that are
in front of me pretty well and with oil
it’s significantly darker now it’s not
that the oil has a whole lot of color to
it it’s really not that tinted but it is
if you were to spit on your thumb and
rub it it would saturate the wood and
that’s what the the UV oil does its main
purpose of course is to protect it from
the wood from graying out due to
sunlight exposure but the other
characteristic that the wood that the
oil provides is that it saturates the
wood which again in the image on the
right you can tell so things to note
about eBay very very very hard a lot of
people compare it to concrete in its
hardness and like concrete
it does sink it doesn’t float on water
you will find that eBay tends to have
green patterns and maybe some black dark
brown striping out of the six boards
here only really one has it a lot this
one has a little bit and that’s about
how often you’ll see it one out of every
six boards will have significant black
striping and the black striping it adds
character and the reason I bring it up
is because you know we want you to know
exactly what you’re getting into with
it’s a beautiful species but it and it
does come with these certain
characteristics and that is that the
color varies from board to board you
will see some black striping certainly
it’s mainly brown hues other species
we’ll talk about our more blonde more
red certainly brown hues in eBay I think
that’s really about it let’s go over to
the cumaru shed alright so now we’re in
the Kim Bruce yet just like with the
eBay before this is our kuru 1×6 decking
so again I’m going to throw up the genk
on the right here as you can see kumru
is very very close to ebay in fact in a
lot of commercial occupations it’s used
interchangeably with cumaru the Atlantic
City Boardwalk is a really great example
of where they couldn’t get enough eBay
at the time this was back in the mid 90s
so they used eBay and Coomera so all the
same benefits as far as insect fire rot
and decay all resistant to those the
differences really come with the
aesthetic so as you can see with kuru
they tend to have a little bit more of a
red hue to them especially when they’re
first cut or before they’ve been in the
sunlight so if you look closely to the
board’s in front of these six boards I
have turned over three of these so these
three here I have turned over to see the
fresh side so as you can see these three
are significantly more what I’ll say
pink or have more salmon pink hues to
them than these three these three have
had a little bit of sunlight exposure
they’ve had more oxidation exposure so
these three are brown this is more of
the color that you’re going to see with
cumaru so with EPA’s darker Browns two
lighter Browns with EPA it’s a little
bit our cumaru rather it’s a little bit
more consistent a little bit more of the
red hues this is a sample of kuru again
here is what matches the boards here
because they don’t have oil and here’s
one with the oil so as you can see
significantly browner than this side
again the oil is not adding the brown
it’s just that this sample has been
the undersides of these warts
particularly these through here so it’s
more saturated another thing that you’ll
notice with kumru I’ll throw a picture
up here on my right is that you’re not
going to see those black those dark
brown and black stripes that I mentioned
in the previous video but what you will
see are small what I like to call
hairline striations so striations is
just a fancy word for a line and if you
look really closely at these grades you
can see they have these tiny little
lines which in my opinion makes Cuba
really really pretty species and it
certainly differentiates it from equator
so just to give you an example here’s
you can see it’s even got some blonde
this one of course did not have much
sunlight or oxidation exposure and then
here’s one that has had some of that
exposure and it’s significantly more
