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SATINWOOD
my samples:
Brazilian satinwood veneer and closeup --- as is frequently the case with woods containing a lot of yellow in the color, I had a hard time getting the color to show up correctly. The actual color is somewhere between the slightly washed out color of the closeup and the overly rich color of the distance pic. The same is true for the pics of the sample directly below as well.
Brazilian satinwood veneer and closeup --- the distance pic on this one has less of the bogus orange tint that is in the one directly above, but the closeup is still more washed out than the rich color of the actual wood.
block mottle African satinwood veneer, long sheet and closeup. The color is somewhere between the extreme gold color of the long view and the duller color of the closeup.
East Indian satinwood veneer sheet and closeup --- the color on the distance pic is accurate but the closeup is just a little too gold
web pics
just listed as satinwood with no indication of subspecies --- shows a wet section and a dry section
all listed as satinwood veneer with no indication of subspecies
African satinwood veneer --- not listed as figured, although it obviously is
figured African satinwood veneer
Brazilian satinwood
Brazilian satinwood veneer
Brazilian satinwood ribbon strip veneer
curly Brazilian veneer
figured Brazilian satinwood veneer
Brazilian satinwood veneer. The first pic is my color-corrected version showing what the wood actually looks like (I bought the lot from which these web-pics were taken) and then the next two are two differenct pics the vendor posted of the same lot. I present this just to show the kind of variation that you can find in web-pics even of the same piece of wood, and in this case the two web-pics are not only significantly different from each other, neither is even close to what the wood actually looks like.
Ceylon satinwood
figured Ceylon satinwood
figured Ceylon satinwood veneer
Ceylon satinwood veneer
listed as bee's wing Celon satinwood veneer, but I think the bee's wing designation is just some vendors hype --- some of the undesignated figures in the pics of veneer directly above have a much stronger figure than this piece.
cambodian satinwood, obviously curly although not listed as such
Indian satinwood
Indian satinwood veneer
Indian satinwood quartersawn figured veneer
Nigerian satinwood
Nigerian satinwood veneer
Nigerian satinwood guitar back
Brazilian satinwood crotch veneer
listed as "Brazilian satinwood swirl crotch" veneer
crotch veneer with no statement on what variety of satinwood it is
pink satinwood
pomelle statinwood
knife handle scales
these are from the BogusColorVendor, so the colors are highly suspect
both sides of a plank and a closeup
Razor mottle African satinwood and maple table built by Jon Harris and photographed at a woodworker's show in Saratoga Springs, NY. When I looked at it, I thought the top was solid satinwood, but now I'm not sure since I see that the maple veneer separators do not go through to the edge. I'll ask Jon.
OK, Jon replied to me that the satinwood on this piece is all veneer and the maple is all solid
The colors are accurate --- this is a beautiful piece.
