Abstract
Today, there are many different heat treatment methods applied to wood materials. Various properties of wood (physical, mechanical, biological, chemical, color, gloss, surface roughness, wettability, etc.) change with the application of heat treatment. This situation helps to create new usage areas for wood material. Foreign tree species of eyong (Eribroma oblonga), jequitiba (Cariniana legalis (Mart.) Kuntze) and koto (Pterygota macrocarpa K. Schum.) have an important value in the furniture industry abroad. In this research, the color (yellow color tone: b*, red color tone: a* and lightness: L*), glossiness (parallel // to the fibers at 20o, 60o and 85o) and shore D hardness values that occur after the heat treatment applied at 200oC for 3 hours on the test samples belonging to the eyong, jequitiba, koto wood types were determined. According to the results obtained, variance analysis was obtained significantly for all tests. It was observed that b*, L*, glossiness values and shore D hardness values decreased in all wood species after heat treatment. ∆E* values were obtained as 39.72, 36.70, and 34.36 in eyong, koto and jequitiba woods, respectively.