exotic hardwoods
This tag is more general in its application in that it may be applied whenever the wood under discussion for use in turned wood pens or other turnery crafts is a wood native to the tropical regions of the world which could be in South America, Africa, and/or Asia.
Lyptus isn't really intended to be a turning wood, rather it is a flooring plank material but it is easy enough to get a flooring plank and cut it …
Geographic Distribution: The wood commonly known as Monkey Puzzle is known to botanists and other scientists as Araucaria araucana. A. araucana is native to the Chile and Argentina. A. araucana …
Quina has a great red color and a fantastic sweet-spicy scent when cut. I would like to smell it when cut green because I would imagine the fragrance would …
I LOVED working with Argentine Lignum Vitae! This super hard wood cuts so cleanly that attempting to sand it is unnecessary which is a good thing because this wood …
Black Mesquite cuts very cleanly and requires little to no finish sanding which makes it very easy to work with, plus, the grain and figure is wild and unlike …
Jatoba is very dense and quite hard so it cuts slowly. Be patient with it. Jatoba has a very nice color and it cut cleanly along the grain but …
I have greatly enjoyed working with Canarywood and this single bowl, the blank for which was mixed into a much larger batch of over 100 blanks, proved no exception …