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This dark colored wood appears black due to the many black streaks that run through it. It is a very hard, heavy and dense wood with a generally straight grain.
Region: Africa Species: Dalbergia melanoxylon
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Afzelia Burl
Unbelievable, swirly, unpredictable grain patterns with orange to golden brown to lustrous Yellowish red, Somewhat like Amboyna Burl in structure. Excellent turning wood. A burl is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. It is commonly found in the form of a rounded outgrowth on a tree trunk or branch that is filled with small knots from dormant buds. A burl results from a tree undergoing some form of stress. Burls yield a very peculiar and highly figured wood, one prized for its beauty by many; its rarity also adds to its expense.
Natural edge, bark inclusions and internal voids may be present and are not considered defects.
Region: Afzelia Xylocarpa Species: Southeast Asia
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It is typically white in color however, certain regions may produce a light brown coloration at the heart. It is lightweight and has a grain that is usually straight, and shallowly interlocked. Due to its irregular grain, and noted for its strength and durability, albizia is a high-quality tropical wood that is a valued choice for making furniture, flooring, decorative veneer, paneling, and wood carvings.
Region: Africa Species: Albizia
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Made famous by Art Deco masters and so highly prized, it's often sold by the ounce, Amboyna burl is one of the rarest, most expensive and difficult to obtain burl woods in the world! Taken from the Narra tree and grows only in Southeast Asia. Some cuts can be as much as $500/ board foot. It was the first burl wood to be used by Rolls Royce for dashboards. A burl is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. It is commonly found in the form of a rounded outgrowth on a tree trunk or branch that is filled with small knots from dormant buds. A burl results from a tree undergoing some form of stress. Burls yield a very peculiar and highly figured wood, one prized for its beauty by many; its rarity also adds to its expense.
Region: Southeast Asia Species: Pterocarpus indicus
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The American Chestnut is a large, deciduous tree of the oak family native to eastern North America. Before the species was devastated by the chestnut blight, a fungal disease, it was one of the most important forest trees throughout its range. There are now few if any mature specimens of the tree, except where it was planted in blight-free regions distant from its original range. Once an important hardwood timber tree, the American Chestnut is highly susceptible to chestnut blight, caused by an Asian bark fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica, formerly Endothia parasitica) accidentally introduced into North America on imported Asiatic chestnut trees. The disease was first noticed on American Chestnut trees in the Bronx Zoo in 1904. While Chinese Chestnuts evolved with the blight and developed a strong resistance, the airborne bark fungus spread 50 miles a year and in a few decades girdled and killed up to three billion American Chestnut trees.
Region: North America Species: Castanea dentata
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| Ancient Kauri or Swamp Kauri refers to prehistoric Kauri forests, buried and preserved in peat up to 50,000 years ago in New Zealand's North Island. Buried under a peat swamp by an unexplained act of nature at the end of the last Ice Age, the trees have survived the centuries underground, sealed in a chemically balanced environment that has preserved the timber in perfect condition. The trees grew for nearly 2000 years before they were buried. Some have a girth of around 40 feet, and a total height of nearly 200 feet. All Items made from this wood come with a certificate of Authenticity |
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Region: New Zealand Species: Agathis
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Like cherry, apricot darkens over time, however, thorough treatment of the freshly sanded and surfaced boards with a top-coat polymer, apricot kernel oil or a beeswax finish preserves the natural orange color indefinitely.
Region: Worldwide Species: Prunus armeniaca
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tropical tree of Africa. Wood is cream to white to pale pink brown, veined lustrous aspect. Grain sometime wavy producing a moire aspect.
Region: Ghana Species: Aningeria
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White ash has a bright almost white coloring with occasional creamy white accents. It's a very strong and durable wood. So strong in fact that it is the only wood used to make major league baseball bats. It is also used in fine furniture making and frequently in archery bows as well.
Region: North America Species: Frazinus americana
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Striking curly or fiddlebacked grain pattern. Heartwood ranges from creamy white to a light greyish or amber color. Machines well,takes a high polish.
Region: S.E.Asia, Cambodia, Laos Species: Lagerstroemia spp
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Avodire is also referred to as Blond mahogany. It is a rare wood that has many of the same tonal qualities and workability of mahogany. Avodire is credited as being one of the most beautiful of all blonde woods, even the less decorative boards. The light-colored heartwood will darken to a golden color when cut. There is not much difference in color between sapwood and heartwood. It is often highly mottle figured. The wood sands, glues and finishes easily. When polished it has a lustrous surface, also reminiscent of mahogany. Works well with both hand and machine tools.
Region: Ivory Coast area of West Africa Species: Turraeanthus africanus
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As its name implies Bethlehem Olivewood comes from Olive trees in the Holy land. The trees require regular pruning and this wood comes from the pruned branches. The wood is then ages for 7 - 10 years then processed and sold for use in various crafts including pen turning.
Region: Bethlehem Isreal Species: Olea spp.
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Bird's eye is a type of figure that occurs within several kinds of wood, most notably in hard maple. It has a distinctive pattern that resembles tiny, swirling eyes disrupting the smooth lines of grain. It is somewhat reminiscent of a burl, but it is quite different: the small knots that make the burl are missing.
It is not known what causes the phenomenon. Research into the
cultivation of bird's eye maple has so far discounted the theories that
it is caused by pecking birds deforming the wood grain or that an
infecting fungus makes it twist. However, no one has demonstrated a
complete understanding of any combination of climate, soil, tree
variety, insects, viruses or genetic mutation that may produce the
effect.
Bird's eye maple is most often found in Acer saccharum (sugar maple), but millers also find bird's eye figure in red maple, white ash, Cuban mahogany, American beech, black walnut, and yellow birch. Trees that grow in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States yield the greatest supply, along with some varieties in the Rocky Mountains.
Although there are a few clues in a tree's bark that indicate the
lumber might have bird's eye figure, it is usually necessary to fell the
tree and cut it apart to know for sure.
Region: United States Species: Acer saccharum
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(Prunus Serotina) Lovely pinkish burl with lots of tight eyes.
Region: North America Species: Prunus serotina
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Black Palm is hard and dense, with stringy type grain. Somewhat difficult to machine, needs sharp tools, distinctive end grain.
Region: Myanmar Species: borassus flabellifer
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Black walnut is highly prized for its dark-colored, true heartwood. It
is heavy and strong, yet easily split and worked. Walnut wood has
historically been used for gunstocks, furniture, flooring, paddles,
coffins, and a variety of other wood products.
Region: United States Species: Juglans nigra
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(Brosimum Rubescens- Central & South America) Also known as Satine and Cardinal Wood for its strawberry red to crimson red coloring.
Region: South America Species: Brosimum Rubescens
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(Cordia elaeagnoides - Mexico & Central America) Bocote is a particularly fine, beautiful wood, with colors varying from light to golden brown and variegated irregular markings. It has an attractive ray fleck figure if quartersawn.
Region: South America Species: Cordia elaeagnoides
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Creamy yellow background with candy red stripes.
Region: North America Species: Acer Negundo
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Brazilian cherry is a very beautiful reddish brown wood, with an interlocking grain and a golden luster or glow beneath. It is a hard, heavy and very strong wood, having a specific gravity .91.
Region: South America Species: Hymenaea courbaril
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