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Woods We Use

Bocote

Birdseye Maple

Box Elder

Central/South America

Bocote is an exotic wood native to Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. It features a wide range of grain patterns from straight to wild, with curved lines and swirls. 

Box Elder

Birdseye Maple

Box Elder

North America

 Sometimes called “Ash-leaved Maple” because of its non-typical leaves, Box Elder is technically considered a maple tree. Often dyed to enhance beautiful grain patterns.  

Birdseye Maple

Birdseye Maple

Birdseye Maple

North America

Birdseye maple is a rare and mysterious characteristic found in hard maple. It has a distinctive pattern that resembles tiny, swirling eyes disrupting the smooth lines of grain.

Black Palm

Black Palm

Birdseye Maple

Tropical Asia/Africa

Black Palm is an exotic wood that is hard and dense, with stringy type grain. Not really a tree but classified as a grass.

Bloodwood

Black Palm

Bloodwood

South America

Bloodwood is an exotic wood that is sometimes referred to as cardinal wood, for its obvious beautiful deep rose color.

Bubinga

Black Palm

Bloodwood

Central Africa

Bubinga is an exotic wood that is initially pinky-red, but darkens with age. It is popular as an alternative to rosewood.

Canarywood

Canarywood

Canarywood

Central Africa

Canarywood is an exotic wood that is yellow to orange in color, typically variegated with light to dark red streaking. It has a medium to high luster.

Chechen

Canarywood

Canarywood

Central America

The unique color, varying with orange, red and brown colors, streaked with heavy dark grain pattern makes it very beautiful. Grain pattern of each piece is also unique and there are many pieces that give a swirled, figured appearance.

Cherry

Canarywood

Cocobolo

North America

Cherry is a domestic wood that is usually considered to be in the same class as mahogany for usage in the United States.

Cocobolo

Jacaranda

Cocobolo

Central America

Cocobolo is an exotic wood native to Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, and is favored for custom pool cues, fine furniture and cabinetry, inlays, and musical instruments.

Ebony

Jacaranda

Jacaranda

West Africa

Ebony  is an extremely hard, dense, and heavy wood, with a very fine texture. The sapwood is pink to pale red-brown in color, while the heartwood is a uniform jet-black or black-brown streaked.

Jacaranda

Jacaranda

Jacaranda

South America

A unique hardwood lumber from the Central to Southern East Coast of Brazil. It is dense and able to take a fine smooth polish. Colors are generally a reddish yellow with rich brown and contrasting sapwood.

Woods We Use

Jatoba

Leopardwood

Leopardwood

South America

Although it’s widely named “Brazilian Cherry,” it bears little relation to the domestic Cherry that is found in the US, except perhaps that its natural color closely matches the  common stained color of domestic Cherry.

Leopardwood

Leopardwood

Leopardwood

Central/South America

Flaky, speckled figure with dark flecks, varying from a small lacelike pattern to a larger splashy figure. 

Mahogony

Leopardwood

Mahogony

Central/East Africa

Mahogany is an exotic wood with a deep reddish brown color. The grain can be straight, but is typically interlocking. It often has a shimmering figure.

Mango

Myrtlewood

Mahogony

Tropical Asia

Known much more widely for its fruit, mango trees also yield beautiful and valuable lumber. The wood is harvested after the trees have completed their useful fruit-bearing lifespan.

Myrtlewood

Myrtlewood

Myrtlewood

Northwest USA

Myrtlewood possesses a wide variety of beautiful colors and grain patterns and is noted by many as being one of the world’s most beautiful woods. The color of the wood is often influenced by the minerals in the soil.

Olivewood

Myrtlewood

Myrtlewood

Africa/Middle East

What makes this hardwood so unique is the extraordinary grain pattern of each individual piece, as well as the distinctive and inviting fragrance that it gives off. It even becomes darker, richer, and more beautiful in color as it ages!

Paduk

Purpleheart

Pink Ivory

West Africa

Paduk is an exotic wood that is a bright orange or almost crimson wood when freshly cut, but oxidizes to a darker, rich purple-brown over time.

Pink Ivory

Purpleheart

Pink Ivory

South Africa

Pink Ivory is one of the most rare and beautiful woods in the world. It is a very hard wood, strong and stiff, with a fine texture.

Purpleheart

Purpleheart

Purpleheart

Central/South America

Sometimes called amaranth, this colorful Latin American hardwood is tremendously popular for furniture and other designs that call for a unique splash of color.

Quina

Redheart

Purpleheart

Central/South America

Quina is also known as Argentine Sandalwood. The wood is fine grained and very hard. It is usually a light pink when first machined or turned, but darkens to a deep purple-red or burgundy over time.

Redheart

Redheart

Redheart

Central America

Redheart is an exotic wood with dull pink to moderately bright red and fades considerably with long exposure to UV. There is sometimes a purple area at the juncture between the heartwood and the sapwood.

Sapele

Redheart

Redheart

Africa

Sapele is an exotic wood from West, Central, and Eastern Africa. Some consider it as a utility substitute for mahogany.

Woods We Use

Teak

Tamarind

Tamarind

 Southeast Asia

Teak wood has a leather-like smell when it is freshly milled and is particularly valued for its durability and water resistance. Teak is durable even when not treated with oil or varnish. 

Tamarind

Tamarind

Tamarind

Africa

Tamarind wood is used to make furniture, carvings, turned objects such as mortars and pestles, chopping blocks, and other small specialty wood items.  Often dyed various colors.

Walnut

Tamarind

White Oak

North America

Walnut wood is dark, hard, dense and tight-grained. It's prized by woodworkers for its strength, grain and color. The color ranges from creamy white in the sapwood to a dark chocolate in the heartwood.

White Oak

White Oak

White Oak

North America

Oak is regarded as one of the most beautiful woods to work with because of its grain pattern and character.

Zebrawood

White Oak

Zebrawood

West Africa

Zebrawood is an exotic wood native to the Western African countries of Cameroon and Gabon. It is a hard wood, with a medium to coarse texture. The Zebra-like appearance is due to the light and dark colored grain.

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