Help please. What kind of wood?

Graciocues

Graciocues

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I think it's Amboyna. I used it in these points and I'm not positive it's Amboyna. The cue on the left is Amboyna Burl.
 

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I agree with Leon Sly.

It's bubinga...

the grain is too irregular for being grenadillo.

Greetz,

Tom Penrose
 
To be honest, about the only thing we would all agree on is that it is NOT Amboyna.

Amboyna is the name given to the root burl of Narra, scientific name Tcerocarpus indicus (sp?). That wood is neither burled, nor looks like Narra.

I have some fairly irregular grain figured grenadillo, so that, imo, could not be used to rule out grenedillo. There are a LOT of woods it COULD be, IMO.

Kelly
 
it't not multi-colored grain.the white part is sapwood and if it is too big to trun out then the piece would be considered undesirable by most.to me the wood looks like Chechen.,but like they said it's definitely not Ambotna.
 
I agree it's not Amboyna.
Thanks for the info "Amboyna is the name given to the root burl of Narra, scientific name Tcerocarpus indicus (sp?). That wood is neither burled, nor looks like Narra."
I have a couple pieces of Babinga and have compared them with the wood in question. They look and feel different. The wood in question is denser and heavier then Babinga. Babing has small open pores.
I'm sending an Email to the company I got it from hoping they will have a positive answer.
 
Graciocues said:
I agree it's not Amboyna.
Thanks for the info "Amboyna is the name given to the root burl of Narra, scientific name Tcerocarpus indicus (sp?). That wood is neither burled, nor looks like Narra."
I have a couple pieces of Babinga and have compared them with the wood in question. They look and feel different. The wood in question is denser and heavier then Babinga. Babing has small open pores.
I'm sending an Email to the company I got it from hoping they will have a positive answer.
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I have a slab of figured granadillo that looks like that.
 
That's the problem with not knowing for sure. I always ask for a botanical name when shopping for wood if I'm not sure or it looks like it might be something else.
 
Looks like ipe. Could be grenadillo. Not chechen or bubinga or texas ebony. I got lotrs of that stuff & this is not it. The color is right for grenadillo but the grain makeup is different. It looks as close to ipe as can be. Ipe ranges in color, like any wood, but the grain structure is always the best way to identify wood. Just a guess, tough to even guess without being able to cut, touch, smell or tap it.
 
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