As a precious variety that has just entered the timber market in China in recent years, Mexican golden sandalwood has high utilization value and good market prospect. Sandalwood is often used to make gun butts, cut wood skins, and high-end furniture, jewelry boxes, craft inlays, handles and so on. In Mexico, this kind of wood is often used to make decorative boxes, photo frames, toothbrushes, chess pieces, handles, jewelry and so on.
Most logs are 2.5 ~ 3.9 meters long and 25 ~ 40 cm in diameter, some of which can reach 70 cm, but few. The ends of logs are round, and some are plum blossom-shaped. There are few defects in logs, and there are a few radial fine cracks in the cross section along the wood ray direction. The outer skin is light gray, with a neat network of vertical and horizontal cracks, and the inner skin is reddish brown. The difference between heartwood and sapwood is obvious. The sapwood is light in color and its width is 14cm. The heartwood is dark brown, slightly fragrant, and sometimes oozes dark brown gum.
The texture and color of ebony are dazzling and changeable, with obvious tiger skin patterns, similar to jaguar patterns. Fine pores, oily, dark brown sticky gum oozing out. Excellent hand feeling, clear fragrance, good corrosion resistance, and can resist the harm of bacteria and insects such as termites.