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AVODIRE

Turraenanthus africanus

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my samples --- colors are accurate throughout (except as noted)


plank and end grain --- the side-on pic looks exactly like the wood, but the end grain pic is a little too dark and yellow.


end grain closeup of the piece directly above


mottled veneer --- the first piece is not quite as red as the pic shows and the color on the 2nd pic is quite accurate


quartersawn figured (mottled) veneer sheet and closeup


rotary cut veneer, showing the amazing ripple figure that is common in rotary cut veneer for this species. The pic just can't do it justice, since it shimmers and moves in the light with a terrific three-dimensional effect that makes it hard to believe it's a flat piece.


flat cut veneer --- each of these pieces was selected as having a ripply section, so these representative of flat cut only if you ignore the ripply sections.


quartersawn veneer that was laying around for 15 years before I took the picture, so I'm not sure if the relatively dark color was there originally or not.


quartersawn veneer


quartersawn veneer w/ a small amount wave in the grain

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web pics with a range of colors that I find unlikely.


two pics of quartersawn veneer. The colors don't look accurate to me.


planks. The red color is competely outside my experience


figured veneer


misc web-pics of rotary cut veneer, showing the figure, but with colors that I find mostly suspect. The colors in the last two pics seem reasonable. These pics don't even begin to do justice to this veneer. My own samples shows it off much more clearly.


veneer, not listed as anothing other than "avodire", but the 2nd one seems pretty clearly to be rotary cut.


more veneer --- most of it seems to be figured, but none of it was listed as such


closeups of veneer with both levels of enlargement


plain cut veneer


quartersawn figured veneer with the last two pics being from a vendor who consistantly gets the colors wrong, so I'm sure the yellow is exaggerated in the pics


flat cut figured veneer


listed as mottled veneer but it certainly has a very weak mottle figure --- see my own example at the top of the page for a better one.


this one doesn't really look like it belongs here, but it was posted as a pic of avodire curly veneer