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Tier 1
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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 |
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 |
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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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
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 |
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 |
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.
Avg Dry Wgt (?): 50 lbs/ft3 (805 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 1970lbf (8763 N) | Specific Gravity (?): |
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Top Tier
rare exotic hardwoods... difficult to import... higher priced...
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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 (? |
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 |
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 3" 3.25" & 3.5" Titanium - $85+ 3" 3.25" & 3.5" Brass - $85+ 3" 3.25" & 3.5" Copper - $85+ 3" 3.25" & 3.5" Slate - $ 3" 3.25" & 3.5" Crystal - $ 3" 3.25" & 3.5" Acid Etched Crystal - $85+ |
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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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