Wood species offered for turning projects
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Olivewood
An exotic wood that is native to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. It has a sentimental and religious significance to several cultures and religions. The wood is hard and strong, and has fantastic working characteristics, making it a favorite for wood turning and carving.
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Bubinga
An exotic wood from Central Africa. It is initially pinky-red, but darkens with age and a fun word to say.
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Purpleheart
An exotic wood from Central and South America. The colors vary from light to a very deep purple.
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Cocobolo
An exotic wood native to Central America. 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.
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Zebrawood
An exotic wood native to Western Africa. The Zebra-like appearance is due to the light colored sapwood in contrast with the dark colored grain.
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Ebony
Also called African Blackwood an exotic wood native to Eastern Africa. It features a dark brown, even purplish and black heartwood with dark streaks.
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Padauk
Padauk is an exotic wood from West Africa. It is a bright orange or almost crimson wood when freshly cut, but oxidizes to a darker, rich purple-brown over time
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Bocote
An exotic wood native to Central America. 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.
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Granadillo
An exotic wood from Central America that is bright red to reddish or purplish brown, with rather distinct stripes. The sapwood is clearly distinct from the heartwood, and is almost white in color.
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Katalox
An exotic wood that is native to Central America. The dense, hard wood contains dark, reddish brown streaks
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Osage Orange
A domestic hardwood in North America. The color varies from a light brownish orange color to almost yellow. which oxidizes to a dark brown.
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Redheart
A tropical hardwood from Central America. Redheart is an exotic wood with dull pink to moderately bright red
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Mesquite
A domestic hardwood that is extremely diverse in its coloring and grain pattern. Color varies from a golden honey to a orange-red-rose hue with dark grain lines.
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Bloodwood
An exotic wood from South America that has a deep red rose color. The wood is very dense with a tight fine grain. With age its color does darken.
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Chechen
Chechen, aka Caribbean Rosewood, come from southern Mexico and other Central American countries. Heartwood color is highly varied, with red, orange, and brown contrasted with darker stripes of blackish brown. Color tends to shift to a darker reddish brown with age.