I was curious to work with Louro Preto since I only had the one piece and have not seen it for sale anywhere since I purchased it many years …
I was curious to work with Queenwood, especially since it is so rarely seen in the United States marketplace, but now that I have worked with it I wouldn't …
This piece of wood was sold to me as Orange Agate which I have come to discover is yet another name for Hormigo, about which I have already written …
The only thing I would add was that this piece had terrible end grain tearout and it took an ENORMOUS sanding effort to overcome this. I've read back about …
Jicarillo was hard but not particularly dense or heavy for its size. Jicarillo cut easily on my bandsaw with no burning or slowing. Jicarillo cut very cleanly along the …
Greenheart was very dense and hard but it cut easily enough on the lathe and thankfully, it didn't burn up my bandsaw blade either. The wood does have a …
Hububali is attractive enough, especially for the price and I think it is a good entry level wood for those experimenting with working with imported exotics since it is …