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CACIQUE
NOTE: I got a couple of planks of this wood about 15 years ago and since then I have only seen reference to this wood as a synonym for snakewood (which I was not aware of at the time), but I'm sure this is not snakewood.
AH HA !!! OK, I've discovered that this is just bloodwood --- I got it long before I was aware of bloodwood and the color variation within the plank kept me from ever thinking of it as bloodwood, since all other bloodwood planks I've seen have been a much more uniform blood-red color. I will merge this with the bloodwood page at some point.
my samples --- colors are accurate throughout
small piece with end grain and side grain --- colors are accurate except for the side grains having just a shade too much violet/purple.
plank and end grain of a piece that was cut from the same large plank as the sample above, but this one has been oiled. As you can see, the oil darkens the color somewhat, but not enormously. The orange stripe running through the middle sample really adds a lot to the beauty of the piece. The side-on pic shows the color accurately but the end grain pic is not color corrected and is too dark and does not show the orange stipe well at all.
end grain closeup from the piece directly above --- this butt end has been very fine sanded (even though some of the coarser sanding marks were not fully sanded out) and so the pores have filled with fine dust. This butt end feels like glass to the touch --- this is a very dense wood.
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