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JATOBA
Hymenaea Courbaril
also widly known in the US as "Brazilian Cherry" although it is not related to cherry, this is a good wood for flooring because it is VERY hard and dense, but it's a difficult wood to work for the same reason. It's pretty, with a nice salmon-red color, but personally, I find it just too hard (in the mechanical sense) to work with.
my samples --- colors are accurate throughout:
plank and end grain
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
plank and end grain
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
another small piece with 3 views --- side view, side view with water sprayed on it, and view showing end grain. The end grain pic shows how the freshly cut wood is lighter than than which has been exposed for a while.
one end of a long plank and closeup. The other, much less figured, end is directly below
the other end of the same plank as directly above, and closeup
rift cut plank, and end grain, cut from the highly figured end of the much larger plank shown above
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
flat cut plank, and end grain, cut from the highly figured end of the much larger plank shown above
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
NOT A NATURAL WOOD COLOR
NOT A NATURAL WOOD COLOR
NOT A NATURAL WOOD COLOR
three flooring samples, all listed as "Brazilian cherry" and all coated with a hard shiny finish that has deepened and enriched the color.
the last 2 of the 3 flooring samples above, but with the finish sanded off
flat cut veneer all from the same flitch
flat cut veneer from a different flitch, slightly less red in color
web pics:
web pic of the lot from which my own samples directly above were taken
flat cut planks
quartersawn planks
more planks
scales with color that is outside of my experience with jatoba and seems unlikely to me
turning stock
veneer
veneer sheet closeup with both levels of enlargement
ribbon stripe veneer
quartersawn veneer
flat cut veneer
flat cut veneer that I won on ebay --- my first set of samples of flat cut veneer are from this lot.
veneer --- these were listed as jatoba but appear to me to be more likely to be ribbon stripe African mahogany or ribbon stripe sapele
figured veneer
the color of the bowl is so far outside my experience of Jatoba that I believe that either it is incorrect or possibly this is another wood, mis-identified as jatoba, but I cannot say that with full certainty. The grain pattern IS like jatoba, so perhaps this is a true color that I just haven't otherwise run across.
bowl --- the black streaking is outside my experience with jatoba and makes the bowl look much more like goncalo alves than jatoba.
bowl; pic submitted by Al Amstutz
mottled figure
unfinished jatoba flooring
flooring with a finish
planks
plank and closeup
these all are from the BogusColorVendor, so I doubt that the wood in these pieces is as bright as is depicted here. In fact, based on the kind of gross misrepresentation that is typical of this vendor, I'd guess the wood looks almost exactly like the first of the web-pics above (almost pure brown with only a hint of red and no orange at all)