Help ID This Wood

[daniel]

Not sure of this wood

 

[RFisher]

Looks like a mahogany

 

[manwon]

Not sure of this wood

It could be a variety of Lace wood.

 

[masonh]

my first guess is Sapele and the secong guess would be Mahogany,but i think Sapele is a variety of Mahogany anyway or very close at least.

 

[daniel]

I too think it's sapele. Really translucent up close. I've read they use this in string instruments.

 

[cueman]

My first guess when I saw it was Mahogany. There is also a wood about that color that was sold under the name of Brazilian Hardwood that wound up in thousands of lower end cues.

 

[JoeyInCali]

Cuban mahogany is my guess.
http://www.bluemoonexoticwood.com/cuban_mahogany.html

 

[Randy9Ball]

Bubinga perhaps?

 

[Craig Fales]

Cuban mahogany is my guess.
http://www.bluemoonexoticwood.com/cuban_mahogany.html

My first guess was going to be sapele until I seen that Cuban mahogany.

 

[Paul Dayton]

Cuban mahogany was basically logged out by 1850 and is very hard to get today. If you can get it it is going to be as expensive as a good rosewood and you are going to have to fight with a lot of specialized woodworkers to buy it. It is a member of the mahogany family but a different species than Cuban or Honduras mahogany

On the other hand, African mahogany is readily available, harder, heavier, and cheaper than most mahogany, and it looks just like the cue in the picture. It takes longer to darken than hondouras and on some pieces the grain will switch directions every few inches making working the wood a little harder.

AS far as workability, you have to have very sharp tools and not cut too fast.

But I could be wrong.

 

[qbilder]

Looks like common African mahogany to me. Brunswick, Valley & a few others used the heck out of it in house cues.

 

[Penrose Cues]

wood...

That is African mahogany in my opinion...

Tom