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​available woods... quality sound


​Bocote
Popular due to it's reasonable price and quality sound. 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. The color ranges from golden brown to tan to golden yellow. It is a hard, heavy, and dense wood, strong and stiff, with a medium texture.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 50 lbs/ft3 (800 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 2010lbf (8941 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.73
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Tigerwood
Tigerwood is an exotic wood species that is best known for its beautiful grain. With its deep reddish/orange background with dark vein striping, it is a dramatic and durable hardwood. Its growing popularity has led to export restrictions in Africa from some regions to limit over-cutting and excessive logging. Tigerwood is considered very dense and heavy.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): lbs/ft3 ( kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 2160lbf ( N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.45

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Redheart
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.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 42 lbs/ft3 (673 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 1200lbf (5338 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.68
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Bloodwood
Rich red color... Bloodwood is an exotic wood that is sometimes referred to as cardinal wood, for its obvious beautiful deep rose color. The wood is very dense, with a tight fine, mostly linear grain.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 66 lbs/ft3 (1050 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 2900lbf (12900 N) | Specific Gravity
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Quilted Maple
Western Maple, sometimes called big leaf maple, broadleaf maple, or white maple is pale pinkish-brown in color. There is very little color distinction between heartwood and sapwood.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 34 lbs/ft3 (545 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 850lbf (3781 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.55
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Bubinga
Bubinga is an exotic wood from Central Africa. It is initially pinky-red, but darkens with age. It is popular for tool handles, decorative veneers, turnery, boatbuilding, knife handles, and can be used as an alternative to rosewood.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 55 lbs/ft3 (880 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 2410lbf (10720 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.88

Tier 2

exotic hardwoods... ​quality sound

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Argentine Lignum Vitae
Lignum Vitae (Argentine) is an exotic wood, yet is native to the West Indies and the tropical regions of the Americas. It is a very hard, dense, and heavy wood, with a fine texture. The heartwood color ranges from a dark greenish brown to black.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 74 lbs/ft3 (1190 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 3710lbf (16503 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 1.10
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Bolivian Rosewood
Bolivian Rosewood is an exotic wood with beautiful, rosewood like wood with black striping on top of a dark brown background. Bolivian Rosewood offers a wide range of colors from medium to light browns through to almost black brown purplish tones, on top of which there is frequent black striping.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 53 lbs/ft3 (848 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 1960lbf (8719 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.84
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Ziricote
Ziricote is an exotic wood native to the Central American countries of Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico. It is a hard, dense wood, with a medium texture. The color ranges from reddish brown to dark brown with unusual black streaks and finishes well to a high luster.
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Avg Dry Wgt (?): 50 lbs/ft3 (805 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 1970lbf (8763 N) | Specific Gravity (?):
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rare exotic hardwoods... difficult to import... higher priced...
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​Mexican Cocobola
​Extremely popular hardwood... One of today’s most prized lumbers for its outstanding color and figure; yet also one of the most infamous for its difficulty in gluing and its tendency to cause allergic reactions in woodworkers.

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. The wood is very durable and strong, with a fine texture. It is extremely beautiful, ranging in color from dark red to reddish brown, with an irregular grain pattern. Cocobolo has fantastic working characteristics, making it a favorite for turning and carving, and finishes very smoothly.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 68 lbs/ft3 (1100 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 2960lbf (13167 N) | Specific Gravity (?

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​Brazilian Kingwood
Kingwood is an exotic wood that is light to dark violet brown with lighter and darker stripes of purple. Also called Violetwood or Violete. Bright luster, fine texture and is very stable in service. Very hard and heavy. Takes a high natural polish and develops patina as it ages. Fairly rare.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 75 lbs/ft3 (1200 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 3340lbf (14857 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 1.10


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Gaboon Ebony
Rare Gaboon Ebony is an exotic wood native to Western Africa. It 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. Gaboon Ebony is somewhat difficult to work with hand and machine tools.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 63 lbs/ft3 (1000 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 3080lbf (13701 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.90

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Mun Ebony
Rare Mun Ebony is an exotic wood that is very strong, hard and dense with irregular grain and fine texture. Dark green to black striping with caramel colored background.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 67 lbs/ft3 (1065 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 3000lbf (13345 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.90

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Snakewood
The RAREST of Exotic Hardwoods...
Practically impossible to find a piece of lumber of the size to make a call...

Snakewood is an exotic wood known technically as piratinera guianensis, snakewood comes from a small, relatively rare tree found in the forests of Central and South America. Initially deep red in color, snakewood changes its stripes (so to speak) upon being exposed to air, which makes the wood eventually turn reddish brown. An extremely dense hardwood, snakewood can be somewhat challenging to work with. It splits fairly easily and tends to be splintery. It's also hard to cut and drill.

Wgt (?): 76 lbs/ft3 (1210 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 3800lbf (16903 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 1.08


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