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Dan Pennington
 Post subject: What's This Wood?
PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 11:10 am 
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What's this wood?
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I'm planning a small jumbo with a three piece back of maple and this wood as the center piece. I got it in a pile of 10 orphan sides I bought a few years ago. Any help in id'ing it would be appreciated.
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Honduran or Guatemalan RW?


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Looks like macacauba to me.

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Sapwood makes me want to say Hormigo.
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My guess is koa. It's awfully hard to tell from photos, though.
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Definitely a platymicium species, macacauba or hormigo. Hormigo is generally darker than that.

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The macacauba I have is purpleer than that...
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A.Hix wrote:
Definitely a platymicium species, macacauba or hormigo. Hormigo is generally darker than that.


Can't really tell how dark it is from a photo...

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Hormigo...

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Imagealso hormigo...

Tough to say...
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The white balance setting the camera uses can really throw the color curve off so it is almost impossible to say with 100% certainty what the wood is. With all that being said canarywood is my best guess.

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The orange-ish color I see along with the white sapwood looks like some Amazon Rosewood I bought a while back

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Dan Pennington
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The photos of Guatemalan rosewood that I can find online look like the wood I have, so I'm going with Gautemalan.

Thanks for responding.
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Who cares? It's pretty. Use it for something.
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