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Janka hardness
Brazilian maple
1,500lbf
16 percent harder than red oak.
Not a maple, but pale and plain like one, a little harder than hard maple.
- Botanical
- Balfourodendron riedelianum
- Also called
- Pau marfim, guatambu
- Kind
- Hardwood (a broadleaf tree), Tropical America
- In newtons
- 6.7 kN
- Source
- NWFA species guide, 2004, Page 7 chart
We do not carry brazilian maple floors today.
The floor we carry closest to it in hardness is Hard maple, at 1,450 lbf, with 262 colors to choose from.
Where it sits among every floor wood.
Hardest first. Floors we carry in oak brown, the rest in tan, red oak in black. How the Janka test works.
The number is a start. The floor is the answer.
Hardness is one fact among many: the finish, the sheen, the width and how the house is lived in all count. A free visit puts one of us in your rooms to weigh them with you.