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Exotic Wood

Exotic Wood
	African Padauk Excellent turning wood - used for fancy turnery such as knife and tool handles. Also prized for high end cabinets, furniture, carving, veneer, inlay, flooring, dyewood, joinery, dowels, shuttles, spindles, paddles, and boat building. Buy African Padauk - Click Here
	Bloodwood Cabitnetmaking, furniture, decorative inlay, marquetry work, fancy boxes, turning, veneers. Ages to a deep brown color. Lacquer extends aging to help preserve red color. Buy Bloodwood - Click Here
	Bubinga Primarily used as a veneer for cabinetwork, furniture, and panelling. Also used for knife handles, and fancy goods. Buy Bubinga - Click Here
	Bucote Cabinets and furniture, decorative boxes, boat decking, vehicle bodies, light construction. Selected logs sliced for veneers suitable for panelling and furniture. Buy Bucote - Click Here
	Cannarywood It is easy to work with hand and power tools and can be planed to a very smooth finish. Nailed, screwed and glued joints hold perfectly, and it can be stained, polished or painted and holds hard enamels. Buy Cannarywood - Click Here
	Cocobolo Considered one of the most important woods in cutlery business for knife handles (can be soaked in soapy water with minimal ill effects). Also used for tool handles, brush backs, bowling balls, chess pieces, carving, jewelry boxes, canes, utensils, buttons, musical and scientific instruments, and decorative veneer and inlay. Buy Cocobolo - Click Here
	Ebony Very fine texture with an indistinct grain and metallic luster. Uniformly black heartwood and yellowish white sapwood. Used for piano keys, musical instruments, turnery, inlay, novelties, billiard cues, brush backs, and cutlery handles. Buy Ebony - Click Here
	Lacewood Furniture, cabinetmaking, joinery, light construction, panelling, ornamental inlay, decorative uses. Excellent for turning fancy goods. Buy Lacewood - Click Here
	Mahogany High-class furniture and cabinetmaking, reproduction furniture, boat interiors, pianos, pattern making, carving, turning, moulds and dies, veneers. Buy Mahogany - Click Here
	Purpleheart Uses include inlay, marquetry, furniture, cabinets, flooring, turnery, carving, outdoor construction, chemical vats (very acid resistant), filter press plates, diving boards, and boat building. Buy Purpleheart - Click Here
	Rosewood Bolivian Rosewood, or "Morado" as it is more commonly known, is a dense, easily worked wood from Central and South America. Purplish tan in color and streaked with brown or black figure. Buy Rosewood - Click Here
	Teak Has numerous uses including ship building (especially decks), indoor or outdoor furniture, high class joinery, flooring, paneling, plywood, decorative veneers, turnery, carving, chemical tanks and vats. Buy Teak - Click Here
	Wenge The high natural resistance to abrasion makes this timber very suitable for flooring strips or blocks. Also used for interior and exterior joinery and general construction work. It is an excellent turning wood. Sliced for decorative and paneling veneers. Buy Wenge - Click Here
	Zebrawood Mainly used as decorative veneer, cross bandings or inlay. Fancy goods, marquetry and panelling. Buy Zebrawood - Click Here