African Woods
The tag African woods appears whenever the wood being discussed is native to the continent of Africa, generally sub-Saharan.
Geographic Distribution: The wood commonly known as Pink Ivory is known to botanists and other scientists as Berchemia zeyheri. B. zeyheri grows predominantly in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Northern Botswana and South Africa. …
I did enjoy working with Zebrawood this time more than I did long ago and that I think is mostly due to experience and practice with lots of different …
Shedua by any of its names seems relatively difficult to locate these days. I sourced mine from Got Wood? in South Carolina. Those guys are great to work with, …
I did have some trouble with the Afromosia being a bit brittle and splintery when cut very thin on the edges of the platters. I like edges that are …
The easiest by far was the blank with the random mix of what I am mostly certain were domestic woods. The most difficult were the three featuring Purpleheart which …
Unlike the pen blank sold to me as Makore, these platter blanks demonstrate the moderate reported hardness of Makore which places it in the range of oak. The Makore …
Of course these are just slightly educated guesses and I could be wrong, but for now those are the identifications I am going with and I will proceed to …