Identifying Wood -- Please Add Photos

Biloxi Boy

Man With A Golden Arm
In order to create an easily accessible reference, please post sharp, clear, close-ups of the wood in your cues. It would be desirable to include multiple photos of each type of wood in order to illustrate the variety within categories. Remember to clearly label your posts and indicate sub-types, Thanks to all for past and future contributions.


COMMON WOOD

bocote: page 1, post 6;
cocobolo: page 1, post 11;
ebony: page 1, post 10;
ebony, gabon: page 1, post 10;
ebony, Madagascar: page 1, post 11; page 1, post 12;
ebony, white: page 2, post 17;
maple, birdseye: page 1, post 2;
maple, clear: page ___, post ____
purpleheart: page 1, post 10; page 2, post 21;
rosewood: page 1, post 14;
tulipwood: page 1, post 6; page 1, post 10;

OTHER WOOD

African blackwood: page 1, post 10; page 2, post 20; page 2, post 23;
amboyna burl: page ___, post ____
ash: page ___, post ____
Asian Satin wood: page 1, post 14;
Asian burl (Laos): page 1, post 14;
Australian burl: page ___, post ____
bees wing narra: page 1, post 6;
birch: page ___, post ____
black ash burl: page 1, post 6;
bloodwood: page 1, post 6;
camphor burl: page ___, post ____
claro Walnut: page ___, post ____
goncalo alves: page ___, post ____
holly: page ___, post ____
Honduran rosewood burl: page ___, post ____
ironwood: page ___, post ____
ironwood burl (Laos): page 1, post 14;
kielwood: page ___, post ____
kingwood: page ___, post ____
koa: page ___, post ____
lacewood: page ___, post ____
leadwood: page 2, post 21;
mahogany: page ___, post ____
maple burl: page ___, post ____
maple, quilted: page ___, post ____
maple, spalted: page ___, post ____
maple, tiger/curly: page 1, post 2;
olivewood: page 1, post 2; post 6;
oak: page ___, post ____
padauk: page 1, post 11;
palm: page ___, post ____
pau ferro: page 1, post 10;
pau rosa: page 2, post 20;
pau santo (Brazilian blackheart): page 2, post 22;
pink ivory: page 1, post 2;
pink ivory, curly: page 2, post 19;
red heart: page 1, post 6;
rosewood, African (bubinga): page ___, post ____
rosewood, Madagascar (bois de rose): page ___, post ____
rubberwood burl: page ___, post ____
sapelle, quilted: page 1, post 6;
sapelle, Mahogany: page 1, post 1;
satinwood: page 2, post 22
snakewood: page 1, post 11;
tamarind: page ___, post ____
thuya burl: page ___, post ____
wenge: page 2, post 19;
zebrawood: page ___, post ____

LINKS

http://hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/
https://www.wood-database.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood
 
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Kickin' Chicken

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Tim Scruggs Tiger Maple (STAINED)

Alex Brick Pink Ivorywood

Richard Chudy RC3 Olivewood

Mike Bender Birdseye

Jensen Birdseye
 

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johnnysd

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In order to create an easily accessible reference, please post sharp, clear, close-ups of the wood in your cues. It would be desirable to include multiple photos of each type of wood in order to illustrate the variety within categories. Remember to clearly label your posts and indicate sub-types, Thanks to all for past and future contributions.

COMMON WOOD

bocote
cocobolo
ebony
maple, birdseye
maple, clear
purpleheart
rosewood
tulipwood

OTHER WOOD

African blackwood
ash
bloodwood
goncalo alves
holly
ironwood
kingwood
koa
lacewood
mahogany
maple, quilted
maple, spalted
maple, tiger/curly
olivewood
palm
pau ferro
pink ivory
rosewood, African (bubinga)
rosewood, Madagascar (bois de rose)
rubberwood burl
snakewood
wenge
zebrawood
oak
burl

Birch is missing from your list and is one of better woods for cue and can be quite beautiful in the fire birch and arctic birch figures.

Kielwood is really popular for shafts

Brazilian Rosewood is pretty much a category of its own due to rarity and desirability

Camarillo Rosewood is very popular and favorite wood of Josh Treadway

You missed many of the most popular burls as well especially Amboyna (probably most desired) Thuya, Honduran Rosewood Burl, Maple burl (often stabilized and dyed), Australian Burls, Camphor Burl

Plus a bunch of other less known woods.

Maple is used typically as straight, birdseye and curly.

Spalted (figure from disease) is popular in Tamarind and maple

Claro Walnut is also very common in cues.

It would be a cool reference guide to have for cues. Would even be a book for people to reference.

That said you can see pictures and learn the characteristics of most woods here

https://www.wood-database.com/
 

johnnysd

AzB Silver Member
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Tim Scruggs Tiger Maple (STAINED)

Alex Brick Pink Ivorywood

Richard Chudy RC3 Olivewood

Mike Bender Birdseye

Jensen Birdseye

Olivewood is so pretty. I understand it is not the most stable and easy wood to turn but every time I see it I really like it.
 

Biloxi Boy

Man With A Golden Arm
Thank you. This going to be better than I imagined. The labels on the pictures are "icing on the cake". I will correct the list as we go along.
 

Kickin' Chicken

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Black Boar - African Blackwood

Capone - Gabon Ebony

James White - Purpleheart

Olney - Tulipwood

SW - Pau Ferro / Ebony
 

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Kickin' Chicken

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Tascarella - Macassar Ebony

Tascarella - Snakewood

Brunswick - Sapele Mahogany

TS - Cocobolo

TS - Padauk
 

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Kickin' Chicken

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better examples where you can see the striping:

2 TS - Macassar Ebony
 

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johnnysd

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O.P.
You should have made this a NEGATIVE thread.
It would have more participation!
FACT!

The pics you are posting are just awesome. The more I see it the more I think Olivewood is quietly one of the most consistently pretty woods out there.
 

HawaiianEye

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White ebony.
 

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Michael Webb

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The pics you are posting are just awesome. The more I see it the more I think Olivewood is quietly one of the most consistently pretty woods out there.

Thank you. I agree. That olive wood forearm I posted, I cored that about 7 years ago I think. Just getting ready to use it this year. Olive wood and Tulip wood take a lot of time. Even cord.
 

S.Vaskovskyi

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Two species in this cue...Pau Rosa and African blackwood.
 

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