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African Wenge, with its rich coffee-colored hue and veins of caramel, offers a striking contrast, making it an ideal accent wood for small decorative pieces. Known for its density and durability, Wenge ensures minimal chipout, a common concern when planing thin stock. 

Common Uses: edging, veneering, inlay, marquetry, crafting decorative boxes, bending stock, creating bent laminations, and whatever else your imagination desires!

Janka Hardness: 1,930 lbf

Called birdseye maple because the tiny knots in the grain resemble small bird’s eyes. Birdseye maple is frequently sold in veneer form, but solid lumber is available as well. The birdseye figure is most noticeable and pronounced on flatsawn pieces of lumber.

Janka Hardness: 1,450 lbf 

Bloodwood is extremely dense and tends to be brittle, which can lead to easy splintering during the working process. However, those who persevere through these challenges to the finishing stage are rewarded with an exceptional and lustrous red surface. 

Common Uses: carvings, trim, inlays, furniture, guitars, knife handles, and turned objects.

It is generally easy to work with. Tearout may occur on pieces with figured or interlocking grain during planing or other machining operations. Gluing can sometimes be challenging due to the wood's high density and natural oils, but it turns and finishes well. 

Common Uses: veneer, inlays, fine furniture, cabinetry, turnings, and specialty items. Its large growth allows for the creation of natural-edge slabs used in tabletops and specialized projects.

Janka Hardness: 2,410 lbf 

Heartwood color can vary from a pale yellow-orange to a darker reddish brown, usually with darker streaks throughout. Pale yellow sapwood is sharply demarcated from heartwood. Color tends to darken and homogenize with age
Easy to work with, though some tearout can occur during planing on pieces with wild or irregular grain. Turns, glues and finishes well. 

Common Uses : construction lumber, railroad crossties, flooring, veneers, boatbuilding, furniture, cabinetry, and turned items.

Heartwood color can be highly variable, ranging from a bright red to a darker reddish or purplish brown. 

Overall workability is good for both hand and machine tools, though areas of interlocked grain should be approached with care to avoid tearout. Able to take a very high natural polish. Turns and glues well.
Common Uses: Furniture, cabinetry, veneer, musical instruments, turned objects, and small specialty wood items.

Heartwood varies from a light orangish brown to a darker reddish brown. Color tends darken upon exposure to light. 

Jatoba is considered difficult to work with on account of its density and hardness. Jatoba also tends to be difficult to plane without tearout due to its interlocking grain. Stains, turns, and finishes well. Responds well to steam-bending. 

Common Uses: Flooring, furniture, cabinetry, tool handles, shipbuilding, railroad ties, turned objects, and other small specialty items.

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Heartwood ranges from medium to dark reddish brown, sometimes with darker streaks. Generally easy to work, though tearout can be a problem on quartersawn surfaces due to the interlocked grain. May stain and react with iron-based fasteners in damp conditions. Glues, turns, and finishes well.
Common Uses: Veneer, cabinetry, furniture, flooring, boatbuilding, interior trim, turned objects, and other small specialty wood items.

Has a very conspicuous flecking that gives this wood its namesake. Has a fairly coarse texture and straight grain. Fairly difficult to work because of its high density and tendency to tearout during planing. Leopardwood glues and finishes well.

Common Uses: Veneer, cabinetry, fine furniture, musical instruments (guitars), and turned objects.

Heartwood color can be highly variable, ranging from a bright red to a darker reddish or purplish brown, frequently with darker stripes. Overall, good working characteristics for both hand and machine tools, though areas of interlocked grain should be approached with care to avoid tearout. Able to take a very high natural polish. Turns and glues well.
Common Uses: Furniture, cabinetry, veneer, musical instruments, turned objects, and small specialty wood items.

Heartwood ranges from pale pink to a deeper reddish brown, sometimes with streaks of medium to dark reddish brown.

Common Uses: Veneer, plywood, turned items, furniture, boatbuilding, and interior trim.

Color tends to be a golden to dark brown, sometimes with darker streaks. Sapwood is usually thin and yellow/white, clearly demarcated from the heartwood. Monkeypod is sometimes seen with highly figured curly or wild grain patterns.

Monkeypod is called by many different names in many different cultures, and its lumber is likewise used for a number of different purposes depending on the locale, ranging from utility wood and construction purposes to fine furniture.

Heartwood is a cream or yellowish brown, with darker brown or black contrasting streaks. Color tends to deepen with age. Olive is somtimes figured with curly or wavy grain, burl, or wild grain.
Workability: Somewhat easy to work, though wild or interlocked grain may result in tearout during surfacing operations. Olive has high movement in service and is considered to have poor stability. Turns superbly. Glues and finishes well.
Common Uses: High-end furniture, veneer, turned objects, and small s

Heartwood tends to be darker than temperate walnut species, with a deep chocolate brown color, sometimes with a purplish hue. May also contain streaks of lighter-colored wood mixed throughout.
Typically easy to work provided the grain is straight and regular. Planer tearout can sometimes be a problem when surfacing pieces with irregular or figured grain. Glues, stains, and finishes well.
Common Uses: Furniture, cabinetry, veneers, flooring, musical instruments, and interior trim.

Heartwood tends to be a golden or medium brown, with color darkening with age.
Easy to work in nearly all regards.  Despite its natural oils, teak usually glues and finishes well, though in some instances it may be necessary to wipe the surface of the wood with a solvent prior to gluing/finishing to reduce the natural oils on the surface of the wood. 

Common Uses: Ship and boatbuilding, veneer, furniture, exterior construction, carving, turnings, and other small wood objects.

When freshly cut the heartwood of purple heart can be a dull grayish/purplish brown. Upon exposure—usually within a few days—the wood becomes a deeper eggplant purple.

Common Uses: Construction lumber, railroad crossties, flooring, veneers, boatbuilding, furniture, cabinetry, and turned items.

Heartwood is a relatively uniform light pinkish to reddish brown. Random pockets of gum and natural oils are commonly present. Spanish Cedar is easy to work with both hand and machine tools. However, due to its low density and softness, Spanish Cedar tends to leave fuzzy surfaces if not machined with sharp cutters; extra sanding up to finer grits may be required. 

Common Uses: Veneer, plywood, cabinetry, musical instruments, (flamenco and classical guitars), humidors, and boatbuilding.

Tigerwood is a durable and dramatic exotic wood species known for its dark vein stripes and beautiful deep reddish-orange background.

Common Uses: interior flooring, musical instruments, and fine furniture. Its durability and water-resistant qualities also make it perfect for anything used outdoors, including outdoor deck boards, shutters, deck furniture, and boats. It is also used for decorative items because of its beautiful grain patterns.