Tropical Hardwoods, Inc. a Missouri Corporation located in Kansas City, Missouri has been selling Honduras Rosewood, Latin name Dalbergia Stevensonii, to marimba and xylophone manufacturers in the world since 1982. In the 90's, we began inventorying and selling African Padauk.
OUR SPECIALTY
Tropical Hardwoods, Inc. has specialized in buying Honduras Rosewood for marimbas and xylophones taking care to obtain only the best rosewood available. We are a small company with the goal of careful hands-on attention, inspecting every board before we ship it to the U.S.A. We air dry our wood under special built air drying sheds for 3-5 years (sometimes longer) which provides extra stability to the wood. Our kiln drying process brings the wood down to a 6% moisture content ensuring the user even better stability and the clearest possible sound for this wood. We store and mill the rosewood and padauk here in Missouri at a mill in the Ozark Mountains 100 miles south of St. Louis.
