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What is a cocobolo desk.
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This wood is a well known sensitizer that can produce a poison ivy type rash or other reaction in allergic individuals.
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The slow growth makes wood from these trees expensive as they cannot be harvested quickly making the availability low and price high.
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Designed in 1970s and executed in 1981 the desk is constructed with patchwork of exotic cocobolo wood a tropical hardwood from central america known for its expressive grains and attractive colors.
If you have an allergy history work cocobolo with full protection.
Later the firm s partner would tell jimmy that no one else in the office had a desk that nice.
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Dalbergia retusa a medium sized tree with a maximum height of 75 80 ft and a maximum diameter of 3 ft is the species that contributes a lot of the wood used to make cocobolo desks and cocobolo furniture.
Cocobolo has a bad reputation but not for its working qualities.
It is renowned for its sometimes amazing array of colors and for being a very dense stable durable wood making it well suited for both major industry applications.
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Being quite dense sometimes having a specific gravity of over 1 0 it.
A cocobolo desk is a desk made from the rare cocobolo wood that is gotten from cocobolo trees that belong to the dalbergia genus.
Cocobolo desks are rare and we will tell you why.
Cocobolo is a truly exotic wood that remains in high demand with fine furniture craftsmen and guitar luthiers alike.
The heartwood changes color after being cut and can be polished to a lustrous glassy finish.
Cocobolo desks are made from cocobolo a tropical hardwood found in central america belonging to the family dalbergia.
The cocobolo desk is a desk made from cocobolo wood that is a particularly hard wood that comes from a slow growing tree.
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Popular culture reference edit bob odenkirk s character jimmy mcgill who later changes his name to saul goodman on the popular amc television series better call saul expresses his desire to get a desk made of cocobolo during the 7th episode of the first season 1.
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It is usually orange or reddish brown often with darker irregular traces weaving through the wood.
It is a true rosewood with a density second only to african blackwood.
