OK,here are my thoughts....but please remember,this is an opinion and is not guaranteed though I wouldn't on purpose try to mislead.
The wood,IMO,is one of the tropical hardwoods,and could very well be equal(probably is)or surperior to those woods that we traditionally use.The grain coloration is probably the results of mineral stain,a degrading factor in our hardwoods.Personally I very much like some of these woods,especially the grain coloration in this one.
The last ten or so years has seen a major change in the world timber supply/markets.Southeast Asia,especially,is a major supplier of hardwoods now on the world market.Used to be a few years ago that Japan had a corner on the SE Asia market,but no longer.The little nation of Singapore is now the controlling agent for anything that flows out of this region,and Japan is no longer the principal consumer.The timber is going to Europe as well as here in the States.Bye-bye Tropical Rain Forest,orangutangs,etc etc.
The source could also very well be Africa.The Tropical Rain Forest there is producing some of the finest hardwood timber you'll ever see.Some ten or so years ago I was supposed to go into Ghana,West Africa and do a major forest inventory and put togather a sawmill operation.I was vaccinated for about every disease known to mandkind except HIV and Ebola because every disease known is alive and well in that region :haha:.Some of the samples of wood sent to me for study were outstanding,and really surperior to most of what we have.Luckily the venture fell through,and I went down to Belize instead for much the same reason except in Belize it was pine timber and not tropical hardwoods.
That's my guess....a tropical hardwood.Either way,it's very pretty
The wood,IMO,is one of the tropical hardwoods,and could very well be equal(probably is)or surperior to those woods that we traditionally use.The grain coloration is probably the results of mineral stain,a degrading factor in our hardwoods.Personally I very much like some of these woods,especially the grain coloration in this one.
The last ten or so years has seen a major change in the world timber supply/markets.Southeast Asia,especially,is a major supplier of hardwoods now on the world market.Used to be a few years ago that Japan had a corner on the SE Asia market,but no longer.The little nation of Singapore is now the controlling agent for anything that flows out of this region,and Japan is no longer the principal consumer.The timber is going to Europe as well as here in the States.Bye-bye Tropical Rain Forest,orangutangs,etc etc.
The source could also very well be Africa.The Tropical Rain Forest there is producing some of the finest hardwood timber you'll ever see.Some ten or so years ago I was supposed to go into Ghana,West Africa and do a major forest inventory and put togather a sawmill operation.I was vaccinated for about every disease known to mandkind except HIV and Ebola because every disease known is alive and well in that region :haha:.Some of the samples of wood sent to me for study were outstanding,and really surperior to most of what we have.Luckily the venture fell through,and I went down to Belize instead for much the same reason except in Belize it was pine timber and not tropical hardwoods.
That's my guess....a tropical hardwood.Either way,it's very pretty
