Exotic Wood afrormosia

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AFRORMOSIA

Pericopsis spp.

my samples:

both sides and end grain of a large plank --- color is accurate --- this piece is rough and I did not take an end grain closeup shot because I'll do that on a smaller piece after I've fine sanded it. OK, now I've done that and the pics are directly below

two small planks cut from the large one. The one on top is rough sanded and the one on the bottom is fine sanded, and you can certainly see the difference in color and grain clarity.

end grain of the two pieces directly above

end grain closeup of the "fine-sanded" piece from the two directly above. I put "fine sanded" in quotes because up close like this you can seen that my fine sanding wasn't all that fine.

face grain closeup and extreme closeup from the fine sanded plank

another plank (and end grain shot) cut from the large one at the top of the page

end grain closeup of the piece directly above, and this time I got the fine sanding right !

plank and end grain

end grain closeup of the piece directly above

both sides of a plank and end grain for each

a smaller piece cut from the same plank as above

plank and end grain --- this piece was purchased from a vendor who generally supplies low quality wood

end grain of the piece directly above

two more pieces from the same plank

the smaller of the two pieces directly above, moistened with water to show the substantial color change that a finishing agent will cause in this wood.

plank and end grain

end grain closeup of the piece directly above

quartersawn figured veneer --- the figure is weak, but does show up more than you can see in these pics. The actual wood has a slight yellow tint not captured in these pics. Compare my pics to the one posted by the vendor (directly below) --- my pics are not quite yellow enough and hers are definitely too yellow