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KEMPAS

Koompassia spp.
Includes at least K. grandiflora, K. beccarianna, K. borneensis, K. excelsa, and K. malaccensis of the family Leguminosae

also widely spelled "kampas", this is a heavy, coarse-grained wood that is primarily used for construction and flooring.

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my sample:


flooring sample kindly donated by Dale Romain. This piece has been only rough sanded and you can easily see the belt-sanding scratch marks across the grain. The 2nd pic is moistened with water. Well, OK, if you want to get picky, the pic isn't moistened with water, the wood is. The moistened pic shows up an artifact that I did not see at all in the dry wood and that is the apparent presence of ray flakes. I say "apparent" because their direction relative to the grain makes them suspeciously unlike normal ray flakes but I don't know what else they could be.


end grain closeup of the piece directly above --- color is a little too dark

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web pics


planks


flooring. This species is heavily used for flooring and there are many sites on the Internet that show it in that use.