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240 woods on a poster (24"x36")

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MAHOGANY, SANTOS

Myroxylon balsamum

Myroxylon balsamum of the family Leguminosae

This wood is not related to mahogany, it just has the word in its name.

This hard, dense, heavy Central American wood is moderately difficult to work but can be finished smoothly with a high natural polish. Though non-siliceous, this wood creates more than the usual dulling of cutters.


my samples:




small plank section


flooring sample donated by Dale Romaine (thanks, Dale). I've rough-sanded this and the scratch marks are still very visible but both the side grain and the end grain show up very nicely


bowl blank face and end grain


plank and end grain --- this was cut from the sister bowl blank to the one directly above


end grain closeup and side grain closeup of the piece directly above.


small planks cut from the same bowl blank as the one above but only rough sanded


small slab --- reddish color is correct

NOT A RAW WOOD COLOR
flooring sample which has been finished with a hard, shiny finishing agent that has deepened and enriched the color.


the piece directly above, after I sanded off the finish --- this was a thin plywood layer, so I could not get an end grain pic

NOT A RAW WOOD COLOR
flooring sample which has been finished with a hard, shiny finishing agent that has deepened and enriched the color. I sanded off the finish and took the pics directly below


flooring sample and end grain (see above for a shot of this piece with a finishing agent)


end grain closeup of the piece directly above

NOT A RAW WOOD COLOR
flooring sample which has been finished with a hard, shiny finishing agent that has deepened and enriched the color. I sanded off the finish and took the pics directly below


flooring sample and end grain (see above for a shot of this piece with a finishing agent)


end grain closeup of the piece directly above

NOT A RAW WOOD COLOR
flooring sample which has been finished with a hard, shiny finishing agent that has deepened and enriched the color. I sanded off the finish and took the pics directly below


flooring sample and end grain (see above for a shot of this piece with a finishing agent)


end grain closeup of the piece directly above

NOT A RAW WOOD COLOR
flooring sample which has been finished with a hard, shiny finishing agent that has deepened and enriched the color. I sanded off the finish and took the pics directly below


flooring sample and end grain (see above for a shot of this piece with a finishing agent)


end grain closeup of the piece directly above


flooring sample and end grain


end grain closeup of the flooring sample directly above

NOT A RAW WOOD COLOR

NOT A RAW WOOD COLOR

NOT A RAW WOOD COLOR

NOT A RAW WOOD COLOR

NOT A RAW WOOD COLOR
five different flooring samples, all of which have been finished with a hard, shiny finishing agent that has deepened and enriched the color.


the same 5 flooring samples as above, but with the finish sanded off --- there was a slight bow in some of these and the finish is not toally sanded off in the middle of those.


web pics


plank with wet and dry sections


planks




3 views of the same plank, all presented by the BogusColorVendor. The two long pics have exaggerated red color but you wouldn't necessarily know that just looking at the pics, but look what they've done to the red color in the 3rd pic, which is purportedly a closeup of the piece. This is representative of the fundamental dishonesty of this vendor. Some of the birghter color web-pics above are probably also from them.


another plank plus closeup from them and this time even the distance pic is obviously one of their gross exaggerations


another plank from them.