South American Woods
These articles discuss woods or other materials that are native to or which are primarily manufactured in the continent of South America. For my purposes, South American includes all countries and territories to the south of the termination of the Isthmus of Panama at the border between Panama and Columbia.
Yellowheart has a nice natural luster and sheen that appears satin-like when finely prepared. There is also the occasional chatoyant effect as well.
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 …