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.
Learn about: Specific Gravity and Janka Hardness
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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.… |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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.… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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 … |
|
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, … |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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.… |
|
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… |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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.… |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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.… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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.… |
|
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… |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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. … |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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.… |
|
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… |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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 … |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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 … |
|
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 … |
|
Specific Gravity: 0.56 | Janka Hardness: 1600 Red Palm is an exotic wood with heartwood that is light yellow, with distinguishing red strings.… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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.… |
|
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… |
|
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 … |
|
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. … |
|
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 … |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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. … |
|
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… |
|
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 … |
|
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… |
|
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… |
|
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… |
108 Exotic Wood Species!
