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Exotic Wood

Exotic Wood: We offer the following exotic wood species in a variety of sizes. Our customers include cabinet makers, pen turners, cue builders, knife makers, bowyers, luthiers, furniture makers, razor-restorers, and bowl turners. If you are looking for a exotic wood species, or a size that you can't find, please contact us and we will do our best to help you out.

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African Blackwood Exotic Wood

African Blackwood

Specific Gravity: 1.20 | Janka Hardness: 1700

African Blackwood is an exotic wood native to Eastern Africa, and is also known as Mozambique Ebony or Senegal Ebony. It features a dark bro…

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African Mahogany Exotic Wood

African Mahogany

Specific Gravity: 0.53 | Janka Hardness: 830

African Mahogany is an exotic wood with a deep reddish brown color. The grain can be straight, but is typically interlocking. Working this…

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Afrormosia Exotic Wood

Afrormosia

Specific Gravity: 0.69 | Janka Hardness: 1560

Heavy, dense wood with medium stiffness and resistance to shock loads. Bending and crushing strength are high, but it can distort when stea…

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Afzelia Burl Exotic Wood

Afzelia Burl

Specific Gravity: 0.58 | Janka Hardness: 1810

Afzelia Burl can be machined well and will have some dulling effects on your blades. It can attain a high polish.…

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Amazon Rosewood Exotic Wood

Amazon Rosewood

Specific Gravity: 0.89 | Janka Hardness: 2620

Dalbergia spruceana is a true Rosewood, and is regarded as the best alternative to Brazilian Rosewood. It is a dense wood, so it is perfect …

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Amboyna Burl Exotic Wood

Amboyna Burl

Specific Gravity: 0.66 | Janka Hardness: 2170

One of the most splendid burls, Amboyna Burl is an exotic wood that is one of about 60 in the Pterocarpus genus, which is reported to consis…

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American Chestnut Exotic Wood

American Chestnut

Specific Gravity: 0.48 | Janka Hardness: 540

American Chestnut once made up about 1/4 of all the eastern woodlands in the USA. Unfortunately, nearly all were destroyed by the "Che…

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Anigre Exotic Wood

Anigre

Specific Gravity: 0.40 | Janka Hardness: 930

Anigre is mainly used in veneer. It has a high silica content which can cause blunting of tools. It's used in high end furniture and ot…

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Aspen Exotic Wood

Aspen

Specific Gravity: 0.45 | Janka Hardness: 432

Deriving its name from its leaves which are inclined to tremble in the slightest breeze, Trembling or Quaking aspen trees are reported to ma…

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Bark Pocket Maple Exotic Wood

Bark Pocket Maple

Specific Gravity: 0.72 | Janka Hardness: 1450

The hard maple is the state tree of Wisconsin, Vermont, New York and West Virginia. In the North, during the cold nights and warm days of la…

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Basswood Exotic Wood

Basswood

Specific Gravity: 0.42 | Janka Hardness: 367

Light and soft, yet strong. Basswood works very easily and is great for carving due to the softness and workability of the wood.…

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Birch Exotic Wood

Birch

Specific Gravity: 0.71 | Janka Hardness: 1260

Birch is a domestic wood reported to be full of natural waxes that render it waterproof. The tough and durable bark is also reported to rema…

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Birch Burl Exotic Wood

Birch Burl

Specific Gravity: 0.71 | Janka Hardness: 1260

Birch is a domestic wood reported to be full of natural waxes that render it waterproof. The tough and durable bark is also reported to rema…

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Birdseye Maple Exotic Wood

Birdseye Maple

Specific Gravity: 0.72 | Janka Hardness: 1450

Birdseye maple is a rare and mysterious characteristic found in hard maple. There have been theories as to how Birdseye maple forms, but no …

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Black & White Ebony Exotic Wood

Black & White Ebony

Specific Gravity: 0.67 | Janka Hardness: 1780

Black and White Ebony is an exotic wood with color that is reported to vary with species, usually uniformly black with light-colored bands, …

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Black Palm Exotic Wood

Black Palm

Specific Gravity: 0.68 | Janka Hardness: 1600

Black Palm is an exotic wood that is hard and dense, with stringy type grain. Somewhat difficult to machine, needs sharp tools, distinctive …

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Bloodwood Exotic Wood

Bloodwood

Specific Gravity: 0.96 | Janka Hardness: 2900

Bloodwood is an exotic wood that is sometimes referred to as cardinal wood, for its obvious beautiful deep rose color. With age it's co…

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Bocote Exotic Wood

Bocote

Specific Gravity: 0.73 | Janka Hardness: 2200

Bocote is an exotic wood native to Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. It features a wide range of grain patterns from straight to…

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Bolivian Rosewood Exotic Wood

Bolivian Rosewood

Specific Gravity: 0.84 | Janka Hardness: 2400

Bolivian Rosewood is an exotic wood with beautiful, rosewood like wood with black striping on top of a dark brown background. Bolivian Rosew…

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Brazilian Ebony Exotic Wood

Brazilian Ebony

Specific Gravity: 1.17 | Janka Hardness: 3690

Brazilian Ebony, Swartzia tomentosa, is a hard and heavy wood with a straight grain. It gets the name ebony for its (nearly) black color, bu…

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Brown Ebony Exotic Wood

Brown Ebony

Specific Gravity: 1.19 | Janka Hardness: 3860

Brown ebony is an exotic wood with very similar properties to Gaboon Ebony. The wood is a stable, intriguing wood with golden browns and da…

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Bubinga Exotic Wood

Bubinga

Specific Gravity: 0.88 | Janka Hardness: 2628

Bubinga is an exotic wood from Central Africa. It is initially pinky-red, but darkens with age. It is popular for tool handles, decorative…

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Butternut Exotic Wood

Butternut

Specific Gravity: 0.45 | Janka Hardness: 490

Butternut, also known as White Walnut, grows mostly in the central and eastern United States. It is a cousin of Black Walnut, but is softer…

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Camatillo Exotic Wood

Camatillo

Specific Gravity: 1.19 | Janka Hardness: 3340

Camatillo, also known as Mexican Kingwood, has purpleish heartwood and creamy white sapwood. It is very hard and dense and takes a high nat…

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Canarywood Exotic Wood

Canarywood

Specific Gravity: 0.65 | Janka Hardness: 2000

Canarywood is an exotic wood that is yellow to orange in color, typically variegated with light to dark red streaking. It has a medium to hi…

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Chakte Viga Exotic Wood

Chakte Viga

Specific Gravity: 0.93 | Janka Hardness: 1250

Chakte Viga is a tropical hardwood from Mexico. The hartwood color varies slightly from pale to rich reddish orange. Chakte Viga is sometim…

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Chechen Exotic Wood

Chechen

Specific Gravity: 0.85 | Janka Hardness: 2200

Chechen is an exotic Mexican wood with a wide range of color variation from dark chocolate to light butterscotch colors. Chechen has an irre…

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Cherry Exotic Wood

Cherry

Specific Gravity: 0.58 | Janka Hardness: 950

American Black cherry is a domestic wood that is usually considered to be in the same class as mahogany for usage in the United States. It i…

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Cherry Burl Exotic Wood

Cherry Burl

Specific Gravity: 0.58 | Janka Hardness: 950

Cherry Burl is a domestic wood that is usually considered to be in the same class as mahogany for usage in the United States. It is describe…

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Cochen Rosewood Exotic Wood

Cochen Rosewood

Specific Gravity: 0.82 | Janka Hardness: 2260

Cochen Rosewood is an exotic wood from South East Asia, sometimes called Tracwood. It is popular for turnery and fine woodworking.…

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Cocobolo Exotic Wood

Cocobolo

Specific Gravity: 1.10 | Janka Hardness: 1136

Cocobolo is an exotic wood native to Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, and is favored for custom pool cues, fine furniture and cabi…

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Cumaru Exotic Wood

Cumaru

Specific Gravity: 0.86 | Janka Hardness: 3540

Wood of the species Dipteryx odorata is most commonly called Cumaru among most woodworkers, though it is sometimes referred to as Brazilian …

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Curly Cherry Exotic Wood

Curly Cherry

Specific Gravity: 0.58 | Janka Hardness: 950

Curly American Black cherry is a domestic wood that is usually considered to be in the same class as mahogany for usage in the United States…

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Curly Maple (Hard Maple) Exotic Wood

Curly Maple (Hard Maple)

Specific Gravity: 0.72 | Janka Hardness: 1450

Curly Maple (Tiger Maple) is traditional hard maple (sugar maple, rock maple, hard rock maple) with a soft and flowing figure. The hard mapl…

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Curly Maple (Red Leaf) Exotic Wood

Curly Maple (Red Leaf)

Specific Gravity: 0.63 | Janka Hardness: 950

Curly Red Leaf Maple is commonly called soft maple, but the name often fools many woodworkers. Soft maple is only slightly softer than hard…

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Curly Narra Exotic Wood

Curly Narra

Specific Gravity: 0.66 | Janka Hardness: 2170

Curly Narra, also called Amboyna, is an exotic wood from Southeast Asia. It is a medium strength wood that works well with hand tools and i…

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Curly Oak Exotic Wood

Curly Oak

Specific Gravity: 0.77 | Janka Hardness: 1290

Oak is regarded as one of the most beautiful woods to work with because of its grain pattern and character. Oak is used in many woodworking …

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Curly Pyinma Exotic Wood

Curly Pyinma

Specific Gravity: 0.55 | Janka Hardness: 1055

Curly Pyinma is a beautiful exotic wood with figure. It has a wavy grain pattern and shows in a yellowish-brown color. The wood is good fo…

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Curly Western Maple Exotic Wood

Curly Western Maple

Specific Gravity: 0.55 | Janka Hardness: 850

Western Maple, sometimes called big leaf maple, broadleaf maple, or white maple is pale pinkish-brown in color. There is very little color …

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Curly White Ash Exotic Wood

Curly White Ash

Specific Gravity: 0.66 | Janka Hardness: 1320

Trees often attain heights of 70 to 80 feet, with trunk diameters of 24 to 36 inches. The grain is described as bold, straight, moderately o…

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E. Indian Rosewood Exotic Wood

E. Indian Rosewood

Specific Gravity: 0.85 | Janka Hardness: 1780

East Indian Rosewood is an exotic wood native to the Southern India peninsula, and is prized for it's use in custom pool cues, furnitur…

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English Brown Oak Exotic Wood

English Brown Oak

Specific Gravity: 0.72 | Janka Hardness: 1360

This is a hard, heavy, dense wood. It has a very high crushing and bending strength, and is very good for steam bending. It will have a mo…

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Figured Bubinga Exotic Wood

Figured Bubinga

Specific Gravity: 0.88 | Janka Hardness: 2628

Figured Bubinga is an exotic wood native to Africa, and is very similar to rosewood. The wood is hard, with a reddish brown color, and lustr…

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Figured Katalox Exotic Wood

Figured Katalox

Specific Gravity: 0.92 | Janka Hardness: 3620

Katalox is an exotic wood that is native to Central America. It is far superior in strength to either Teak or Hard maple. Strength qualities…

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Figured Makore Exotic Wood

Figured Makore

Specific Gravity: 0.62 | Janka Hardness: 1294

Figured Makore is an exotic wood native to western Africa. It can be used as a substitute for mahogany and/or cherry. It is easy to finish…

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Figured Purpleheart Exotic Wood

Figured Purpleheart

Specific Gravity: 0.86 | Janka Hardness: 2713

Figured Purpleheart is an exotic wood with mechanical properties of the wood similar to those of Greenheart and Oak. It is reported to have …

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Figured Zebrawood Exotic Wood

Figured Zebrawood

Specific Gravity: 0.74 | Janka Hardness: 1658

Figured Zebrawood is an exotic wood native to the Western African countries of Cameroon and Gabon. It is a hard wood, with a medium to coars…

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Flame Birch Exotic Wood

Flame Birch

Specific Gravity: 0.71 | Janka Hardness: 1260

Birch is a domestic wood reported to be full of natural waxes that render it waterproof. The tough and durable bark is also reported to rema…

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Gaboon Ebony Exotic Wood

Gaboon Ebony

Specific Gravity: 1.03 | Janka Hardness: 3220

Gaboon Ebony is an exotic wood native to Western Africa. It is an extremely hard, dense, and heavy wood, with a very fine texture. The sapwo…

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Genuine Mahogany Exotic Wood

Genuine Mahogany

Specific Gravity: 0.59 | Janka Hardness: 800

Mahogany is an exotic wood that varies considerably in color. It may be yellowish, reddish, pinkish, or salmon colored when freshly cut, mat…

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Goncalo Alves Exotic Wood

Goncalo Alves

Specific Gravity: 0.95 | Janka Hardness: 2160

Goncalo Alves is native to South America and ranges in color from light to deep reddish-brown. It is very hard and naturally rot resistant.…

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Granadillo Exotic Wood

Granadillo

Specific Gravity: 0.79 | Janka Hardness: 2450

Granadillo is an exotic wood that is bright red to reddish or purplish brown, with rather distinct stripes. The sapwood is clearly distinct …

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Hard Maple Exotic Wood

Hard Maple

Specific Gravity: 0.72 | Janka Hardness: 1450

The hard maple is the state tree of Wisconsin, Vermont, New York and West Virginia. In the North, during the cold nights and warm days of la…

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Hard Maple Burl Exotic Wood

Hard Maple Burl

Specific Gravity: 0.72 | Janka Hardness: 1450

The hard maple is the state tree of Wisconsin, Vermont, New York and West Virginia. In the North, during the cold nights and warm days of la…

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Hickory Exotic Wood

Hickory

Specific Gravity: 0.82 | Janka Hardness: 1820

Hickory is very dense and has good shock resistance and steam-bending properties. Sands, turns, stains, and polishes well.…

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Holly Exotic Wood

Holly

Specific Gravity: 0.61 | Janka Hardness: 1020

Holly is a domestic wood that is excellent turning, carving, and inlay. Very rare due to the slow rate of growth and small size of the trees…

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Honduras Rosewood Exotic Wood

Honduras Rosewood

Specific Gravity: 0.96 | Janka Hardness: 1780

Honduras Rosewood is an exotic wood with pinkish brown or purplish with darker and lighter bands. The combination of colors and streaks give…

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Honey Locust Exotic Wood

Honey Locust

Specific Gravity: 0.67 | Janka Hardness: 1548

Heavy, hard wood with an attractive color. Very strong in bending and durable when in contact with the ground.…

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Indian Ebony Exotic Wood

Indian Ebony

Specific Gravity: 0.80 | Janka Hardness: 3220

Indian Ebony is an exotic wood native to southern India and Sri Lanka. It is an extremely hard, dense, and heavy wood, with a very fine text…

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Jatoba Exotic Wood

Jatoba

Specific Gravity: 0.91 | Janka Hardness: 2350

Jatoba is an exotic wood that runs from salmon-red to orange-brown. It darkens into a russet to reddish-brown color after drying, and it is …

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Katalox Exotic Wood

Katalox

Specific Gravity: 1.12 | Janka Hardness: 3620

Katalox is an exotic wood that is native to Central America. It is far superior in strength to either Teak or Hard maple. Strength qualities…

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Kingwood Exotic Wood

Kingwood

Specific Gravity: 1.20 | Janka Hardness: 3340

Kingwood is an exotic wood that is light to dark violet brown with lighter and darker stripes of purple. Also called Violetwood or Violete. …

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Lacewood Exotic Wood

Lacewood

Specific Gravity: 0.62 | Janka Hardness: 891

Lacewood is an exotic wood that is light reddish-brown, and is reported to be similar in color to Beech (Fagus). Plain European plane and La…

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Leopardwood Exotic Wood

Leopardwood

Specific Gravity: 0.91 | Janka Hardness: 840

Leopardwood is an exotic wood with dark reddish-brown color with strong broad rays. This material is straight grained with medium texture. T…

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Lignum Vitae (Argentine) Exotic Wood

Lignum Vitae (Argentine)

Specific Gravity: 1.23 | Janka Hardness: 4500

Lignum Vitae (Argentine) is an exotic wood, yet is native to the West Indies and the tropical regions of the Americas. It is a very hard, de…

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Macassar Ebony Exotic Wood

Macassar Ebony

Specific Gravity: 1.09 | Janka Hardness: 3220

Macassar Ebony is an exotic wood with heartwood that is reported to be strong, very heavy, and very hard. The black heart is usually brittle…

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Madrone Burl Exotic Wood

Madrone Burl

Specific Gravity: 0.77 | Janka Hardness: 1460

Madrone burl works well with hand and machine tools. It turns well, moderately blunts cutting edges, nails, sands, stains well. It can be …

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Maple (Red Leaf) Exotic Wood

Maple (Red Leaf)

Specific Gravity: 0.63 | Janka Hardness: 950

Red Leaf Maple is commonly called soft maple, but the name often fools many woodworkers. Soft maple is only slightly softer than hard, suga…

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Marblewood Exotic Wood

Marblewood

Specific Gravity: 0.85 | Janka Hardness: 2532

Also sometimes know as "Serpentwood", Marblewood has distinctive patterning and can be polished to a high luster. It can be somew…

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Mayan Walnut Exotic Wood

Mayan Walnut

Specific Gravity: 0.77 | Janka Hardness: 1400

Lustrous brown heartwood, sometimes with a coppery tinge and faint striping. Planing, turning, and mortising properties are all very good.…

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Merbau Exotic Wood

Merbau

Specific Gravity: 0.90 | Janka Hardness: 1712

Moderately heavy and hard wood with medium stiffness and bending strength. Has a severe blunting effect on hand tools. Gum content can mak…

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Mopani Exotic Wood

Mopani

Specific Gravity: 0.87 | Janka Hardness: 2940

The Mopani, or Mopane, tree is an exotic species from Southern Africa. It is a very heavy wood that is resistant to termites. Popular for …

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Mun Ebony Exotic Wood

Mun Ebony

Specific Gravity: 0.90 | Janka Hardness: 3220

Mun Ebony is an exotic wood that is very strong, hard and dense with irregular grain and fine texture. Dark green to black striping with ca…

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Olivewood Exotic Wood

Olivewood

Specific Gravity: 0.80 | Janka Hardness: 2740

African Olivewood is an exotic wood that is native to Africa and has a sentimental and religious significance to several cultures and religi…

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Osage Orange (Argentine) Exotic Wood

Osage Orange (Argentine)

Specific Gravity: 0.76 | Janka Hardness: 2400

Osage Orange (Argentine) is an exotic wood from South America that is very dense. It is popular for turnery, handles, musical instruments a…

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Padauk Exotic Wood

Padauk

Specific Gravity: 0.72 | Janka Hardness: 2219

Padauk is an exotic wood that is a bright orange or almost crimson wood when freshly cut, but oxidizes to a darker, rich purple-brown over t…

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Pink Ivory Exotic Wood

Pink Ivory

Specific Gravity: 0.90 | Janka Hardness: 995

Pink Ivory is an exotic wood native to Southern Africa, and is one of the most rare and beautiful woods in the world. It is a very hard wood…

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Poplar Exotic Wood

Poplar

Specific Gravity: 0.51 | Janka Hardness: 540

Easy to cut, plane, and glue, Yellow Poplar (also called Tulip Poplar) is often used as a utility wood. Poplar has poor durability outside …

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Purpleheart Exotic Wood

Purpleheart

Specific Gravity: 0.86 | Janka Hardness: 2713

Purpleheart is an exotic wood with mechanical properties of the wood are reported to lie somewhere between those of Greenheart and Oak. It i…

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Quarter Sawn Maple Exotic Wood

Quarter Sawn Maple

Specific Gravity: 0.72 | Janka Hardness: 1450

Quarter sawn maple is a favorite among instrument makers and other fine woodworkers. It is cut in a way to highlight the fine, even grain o…

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Quarter Sawn Red Oak Exotic Wood

Quarter Sawn Red Oak

Specific Gravity: 0.77 | Janka Hardness: 1290

Oak is regarded as one of the most beautiful woods to work with because of its grain pattern and character. Oak is used in many woodworking …

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Quarter Sawn White Oak Exotic Wood

Quarter Sawn White Oak

Specific Gravity: 0.77 | Janka Hardness: 1335

Oak is regarded as one of the most beautiful woods to work with because of its grain pattern and character. Oak is used in many woodworking …

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Quilted Bubinga Exotic Wood

Quilted Bubinga

Specific Gravity: 0.88 | Janka Hardness: 2628

Bubinga is an exotic wood native to Africa, and is very similar to rosewood. The wood is hard, with a reddish brown color, and lustrous figu…

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Quilted Sapele Exotic Wood

Quilted Sapele

Specific Gravity: 0.62 | Janka Hardness: 1439

Quilted Sapele is an exotic wood from West, Central, and Eastern Africa. Some consider it as a utility substitute for mahogany due to the f…

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Quilted Western Maple Exotic Wood

Quilted Western Maple

Specific Gravity: 0.55 | Janka Hardness: 850

Western Maple, sometimes called big leaf maple, broadleaf maple, or white maple is pale pinkish-brown in color. There is very little color …

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Red Oak Exotic Wood

Red Oak

Specific Gravity: 0.77 | Janka Hardness: 1290

Oak is regarded as one of the most beautiful woods to work with because of its grain pattern and character. Oak is used in many woodworking …

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Red Palm Exotic Wood

Red Palm

Specific Gravity: 0.56 | Janka Hardness: 1600

Red Palm is an exotic wood with heartwood that is light yellow, with distinguishing red strings.…

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Redheart Exotic Wood

Redheart

Specific Gravity: 0.68 | Janka Hardness: 1200

Redheart is an exotic wood with dull pink to moderately bright red and fades severly with long exposure to UV. There is sometimes a purple a…

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Rift Sawn Hard Maple Exotic Wood

Rift Sawn Hard Maple

Specific Gravity: 0.72 | Janka Hardness: 1450

Rift sawn maple is a favorite among instrument makers and other fine woodworkers. It is cut in a way to highlight the fine, even grain of ha…

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Santos Mahogany Exotic Wood

Santos Mahogany

Specific Gravity: 0.66 | Janka Hardness: 2200

Santos Mahogany is a very hard, tough wood that can be worked with hand or power tools with limited difficulty. Glues and finishes well. C…

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Sapele Exotic Wood

Sapele

Specific Gravity: 0.62 | Janka Hardness: 1500

Sapele is an exotic wood from West, Central, and Eastern Africa. Some consider it as a utility substitute for mahogany due to the fact that…

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Shedua Exotic Wood

Shedua

Specific Gravity: 0.80 | Janka Hardness: 1650

Shedua trees can grow to a height of 150 feet, with trunks 3 feet in diameter. Lumber finishes to a high luster and takes stains and finish…

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Snakewood Exotic Wood

Snakewood

Specific Gravity: 1.30 | Janka Hardness: 3800

Snakewood is an exotic wood known technically as piratinera guianensis, snakewood comes from a small, relatively rare tree found in the fore…

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Spalted Maple Exotic Wood

Spalted Maple

Specific Gravity: 0.72 | Janka Hardness: 1450

Spalted maple has dark veins caused by fungi in the wood. This wood is very decorative and therefore very popular with woodworkers.…

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Spalted Tamarind Exotic Wood

Spalted Tamarind

Specific Gravity: 0.90 | Janka Hardness: 2318

Spalted Tamarind is a beautiful exotic wood often found laying on the forest floor. The rotting effect on Tamarind creates the spalted look…

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Sucupira Exotic Wood

Sucupira

Specific Gravity: 1.00 | Janka Hardness: 2140

This wood can be difficult to work with due to its high density and interlocked grain. It has very high strength in all categories. Holds …

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Tamboti Exotic Wood

Tamboti

Specific Gravity: 1.04 | Janka Hardness: 2940

Tamboti is a heavy, strong, dense exotic wood. It has an oily nature, making sanding difficult, but does polish well and can be varnished. …

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Thuya Burl Exotic Wood

Thuya Burl

Specific Gravity: 0.67 | Janka Hardness: 1155

Thuya Burl is an exotic wood that the Greeks named thuya, meaning sacrifice, because they used an oil distilled from it as incense in their …

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Tornillo Exotic Wood

Tornillo

Specific Gravity: 0.44 | Janka Hardness: 2299

Tornillo grows in the Loreton Huanuco provinces of Peru and in the humid terra firma of the Brazilian Amazon region. The heartwood is pale …

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Tulipwood Exotic Wood

Tulipwood

Specific Gravity: 0.96 | Janka Hardness: 1441

Tulipwood is an exotic wood native to the tropical region of South America, mainly Brazil. It is a hard and heavy wood, with a rather fine t…

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Walnut Exotic Wood

Walnut

Specific Gravity: 0.64 | Janka Hardness: 1010

Walnut is a hard, tough wood prized as a cabinet making wood. It is also popular in the United States for gunstocks and rifle butts. Quali…

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Wenge Exotic Wood

Wenge

Specific Gravity: 0.88 | Janka Hardness: 2235

Wenge is an exotic wood with a natural growth range of the species is reported to be the open forests of Zaire, Cameroon, Gabon, the souther…

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Western Maple Burl Exotic Wood

Western Maple Burl

Specific Gravity: 0.55 | Janka Hardness: 850

Maple burl is a growth on the big leaf maple tree, Acer macrophyllum. It has a uniform color with dramatic figure representing large eyes. …

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White Ash Exotic Wood

White Ash

Specific Gravity: 0.66 | Janka Hardness: 1320

Trees often attain heights of 70 to 80 feet, with trunk diameters of 24 to 36 inches. The grain is described as bold, straight, moderately o…

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White Oak Exotic Wood

White Oak

Specific Gravity: 0.77 | Janka Hardness: 1335

Oak is regarded as one of the most beautiful woods to work with because of its grain pattern and character. Oak is used in many woodworking …

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Yellowheart Exotic Wood

Yellowheart

Specific Gravity: 0.80 | Janka Hardness: 1878

Yellowheart, an exotic wood also called Pau Amarello, can grow to more than 130 feet tall and 30" in diameter. It has large leaves upwa…

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Zebrawood Exotic Wood

Zebrawood

Specific Gravity: 0.74 | Janka Hardness: 1658

Zebrawood is an exotic wood native to the Western African countries of Cameroon and Gabon. It is a hard wood, with a medium to coarse textur…

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Ziricote Exotic Wood

Ziricote

Specific Gravity: 0.75 | Janka Hardness: 2200

Ziricote is an exotic wood native to the Central American countries of Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico. It is a hard, dense wood, with a mediu…

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(View All) African Blackwood African Mahogany Afrormosia Afzelia Burl Amazon Rosewood Amboyna Burl American Chestnut Anigre Aspen Bark Pocket Maple Basswood Birch Birch Burl Birdseye Maple Black & White Ebony Black Palm Bloodwood Bocote Bolivian Rosewood Brazilian Ebony Brown Ebony Bubinga Butternut Camatillo Canarywood Chakte Viga Chechen Cherry Cherry Burl Cochen Rosewood Cocobolo Cumaru Curly Cherry Curly Maple (Hard Maple) Curly Maple (Red Leaf) Curly Narra Curly Oak Curly Pyinma Curly Western Maple Curly White Ash E. Indian Rosewood English Brown Oak Figured Bubinga Figured Katalox Figured Makore Figured Purpleheart Figured Zebrawood Flame Birch Gaboon Ebony Genuine Mahogany Goncalo Alves Granadillo Hard Maple Hard Maple Burl Hickory Holly Honduras Rosewood Honey Locust Indian Ebony Jatoba Katalox Kingwood Lacewood Leopardwood Lignum Vitae (Arg.) Macassar Ebony Madrone Burl Maple (Red Leaf) Marblewood Mayan Walnut Merbau Mopani Mun Ebony Olivewood Osage Orange (Arg.) Padauk Pink Ivory Poplar Purpleheart Quarter Sawn Maple Quarter Sawn Red Oak Quarter Sawn White Oak Quilted Bubinga Quilted Sapele Quilted Western Maple Redheart Red Oak Red Palm Rift-Sawn Hard Maple Santos Mahogany Sapele Shedua Snakewood Spalted Maple Spalted Tamarind Sucupira Tamboti Thuya Burl Tiger Maple (Hard Maple) Tiger Maple (Red Leaf) Tornillo Tulipwood Walnut Wenge Western Maple Burl White Ash White Oak Yellowheart Zebrawood Ziricote (View All)