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.
![]() | African Blackwood Specific Gravity: 1.20 (what's this?) 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... shop African Blackwood |
![]() | African Mahogany Specific Gravity: 0.53 (what's this?) African Mahogany is an exotic wood with a deep reddish brown color. The grain can be straight, but is typically interlocking. Working this... shop African Mahogany |
![]() | Amboyna Burl Specific Gravity: 0.66 (what's this?) 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... shop Amboyna Burl |
![]() | Bark Pocket Maple Specific Gravity: 0.72 (what's this?) 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... shop Bark Pocket Maple |
![]() | Birch Specific Gravity: 0.71 (what's this?) 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... shop Birch |
![]() | Birch Burl Specific Gravity: 0.71 (what's this?) 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... shop Birch Burl |
![]() | Birdseye Maple Specific Gravity: 0.72 (what's this?) Birdseye maple is a rare and mysterious characteristic found in hard maple. There have been theories as to how Birdseye maple forms, but no ... shop Birdseye Maple |
![]() | Black & White Ebony Specific Gravity: 0.67 (what's this?) Black and White Ebony is an exotic wood with color that is reported to vary with species, usually uniformly black with light-colored bands, ... shop Black & White Ebony |
![]() | Black Palm Specific Gravity: 0.68 (what's this?) Black Palm is an exotic wood that is hard and dense, with stringy type grain. Somewhat difficult to machine, needs sharp tools, distinctive ... shop Black Palm |
![]() | Bloodwood Specific Gravity: 0.96 (what's this?) Bloodwood is an exotic wood that is sometimes referred to as cardinal wood, for its obvious beautiful deep rose color. With age it's color d... shop Bloodwood |
![]() | Bocote Specific Gravity: 0.73 (what's this?) 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... shop Bocote |
![]() | Bolivian Rosewood Specific Gravity: 0.84 (what's this?) Bolivian Rosewood is an exotic wood with beautiful, rosewood like wood with black striping on top of a dark brown background. Bolivian Rosew... shop Bolivian Rosewood |
![]() | Brown Ebony Specific Gravity: 1.19 (what's this?) 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... shop Brown Ebony |
![]() | Bubinga Specific Gravity: 0.88 (what's this?) Bubinga is an exotic wood from Central Africa. It is initially pinky-red, but darkens with age. It is popular for tool handles, decorative... shop Bubinga |
![]() | Canarywood Specific Gravity: 0.65 (what's this?) 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... shop Canarywood |
![]() | Chakte Viga Specific Gravity: 0.93 (what's this?) Chakte Viga is a tropical hardwood from Mexico. The hartwood color varies slightly from pale to rich reddish orange. Chakte Viga is sometim... shop Chakte Viga |
![]() | Chechen Specific Gravity: 0.85 (what's this?) Chechen is an exotic Mexican wood with a wide range of color variation from dark chocolate to light butterscotch colors. Chechen has an irre... shop Chechen |
![]() | Cherry Specific Gravity: 0.58 (what's this?) 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... shop Cherry |
![]() | Cherry Burl Specific Gravity: 0.58 (what's this?) 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... shop Cherry Burl |
![]() | Cochen Rosewood Specific Gravity: 0.82 (what's this?) Cochen Rosewood is an exotic wood from South East Asia, sometimes called Tracwood. It is popular for turnery and fine woodworking.... shop Cochen Rosewood |
![]() | Cocobolo Specific Gravity: 1.10 (what's this?) Cocobolo is an exotic wood native to Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, and is favored for custom pool cues, fine furniture and cabi... shop Cocobolo |
![]() | Curly Maple (Tiger Maple) Specific Gravity: 0.72 (what's this?) Curly Maple (Tiger Maple) is traditional hard maple (sugar maple, rock maple, hard rock maple) with a soft and flowing figure. The hard mapl... shop Curly Maple (Tiger Maple) |
![]() | Curly Narra Specific Gravity: 0.66 (what's this?) 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... shop Curly Narra |
![]() | Curly Pyinma Specific Gravity: 0.55 (what's this?) 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... shop Curly Pyinma |
![]() | Curly Red Leaf Maple Specific Gravity: 0.63 (what's this?) Curly Red Leaf Maple is commonly called soft maple, but the name often fools many woodworkers. Soft maple is only slightly softer than hard... shop Curly Red Leaf Maple |
![]() | Curly Western Maple Specific Gravity: 0.55 (what's this?) Western Maple, sometimes called big leaf maple, broadleaf maple, or white maple is pale pinkish-brown in color. There is very little color ... shop Curly Western Maple |
![]() | E. Indian Rosewood Specific Gravity: 0.85 (what's this?) East Indian Rosewood is an exotic wood native to the Southern India peninsula, and is prized for it's use in custom pool cues, furniture, an... shop E. Indian Rosewood |
![]() | Figured Bubinga Specific Gravity: 0.88 (what's this?) 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... shop Figured Bubinga |
![]() | Figured Katalox Specific Gravity: 0.92 (what's this?) 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... shop Figured Katalox |
![]() | Figured Makore Specific Gravity: 0.62 (what's this?) 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... shop Figured Makore |
![]() | Figured Purpleheart Specific Gravity: 0.86 (what's this?) Figured Purpleheart is an exotic wood with mechanical properties of the wood similar to those of Greenheart and Oak. It is reported to have ... shop Figured Purpleheart |
![]() | Figured Zebrawood Specific Gravity: 0.74 (what's this?) 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... shop Figured Zebrawood |
![]() | Flame Birch Specific Gravity: 0.71 (what's this?) 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... shop Flame Birch |
![]() | Gaboon Ebony Specific Gravity: 1.03 (what's this?) 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... shop Gaboon Ebony |
![]() | Granadillo Specific Gravity: 0.79 (what's this?) Granadillo is an exotic wood that is bright red to reddish or purplish brown, with rather distinct stripes. The sapwood is clearly distinct ... shop Granadillo |
![]() | Hard Maple Specific Gravity: 0.72 (what's this?) 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... shop Hard Maple |
![]() | Hard Maple Burl Specific Gravity: 0.72 (what's this?) 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... shop Hard Maple Burl |
![]() | Holly Specific Gravity: 0.80 (what's this?) 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... shop Holly |
![]() | Honduras Mahogany Specific Gravity: 0.59 (what's this?) Mahogany is an exotic wood that varies considerably in color. It may be yellowish, reddish, pinkish, or salmon colored when freshly cut, mat... shop Honduras Mahogany |
![]() | Honduras Rosewood Specific Gravity: 0.96 (what's this?) Honduras Rosewood is an exotic wood with pinkish brown or purplish with darker and lighter bands. The combination of colors and streaks give... shop Honduras Rosewood |
![]() | Jatoba Specific Gravity: 0.91 (what's this?) 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 ... shop Jatoba |
![]() | Katalox Specific Gravity: 0.92 (what's this?) 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... shop Katalox |
![]() | Kingwood Specific Gravity: 1.20 (what's this?) Kingwood is an exotic wood that is light to dark violet brown with lighter and darker stripes of purple. Also called Violetwood or Violete. ... shop Kingwood |
![]() | Lacewood Specific Gravity: 0.62 (what's this?) 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... shop Lacewood |
![]() | Leopardwood Specific Gravity: 0.55 (what's this?) Leopardwood is an exotic wood with dark reddish-brown color with strong broad rays. This material is straight grained with medium texture. T... shop Leopardwood |
![]() | Lignum Vitae (Argentine) Specific Gravity: 1.23 (what's this?) 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... shop Lignum Vitae (Argentine) |
![]() | Macassar Ebony Specific Gravity: 1.09 (what's this?) 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... shop Macassar Ebony |
![]() | Madrone Burl Specific Gravity: 0.77 (what's this?) Madrone burl works well with hand and machine tools. It turns well, moderately blunts cutting edges, nails, sands, stains well. It can be ... shop Madrone Burl |
![]() | Mopani Specific Gravity: 0.87 (what's this?) 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 ... shop Mopani |
![]() | Mun Ebony Specific Gravity: 0.90 (what's this?) 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... shop Mun Ebony |
![]() | Oak Specific Gravity: 0.77 (what's this?) 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 ... shop Oak |
![]() | Olivewood Specific Gravity: 0.80 (what's this?) African Olivewood is an exotic wood that is native to Africa and has a sentimental and religious significance to several cultures and religi... shop Olivewood |
![]() | Osage Orange (Argentine) Specific Gravity: 0.76 (what's this?) Osage Orange (Argentine) is an exotic wood from South America that is very dense. It is popular for turnery, handles, musical instruments a... shop Osage Orange (Argentine) |
![]() | Padauk Specific Gravity: 0.72 (what's this?) 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... shop Padauk |
![]() | Pink Ivory Specific Gravity: 0.90 (what's this?) 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... shop Pink Ivory |
![]() | Poplar Specific Gravity: 0.45 (what's this?) Deriving its name from its leaves which are inclined to tremble in the slightest breeze, Trembling or Quaking aspen trees are reported to ma... shop Poplar |
![]() | Purpleheart Specific Gravity: 0.86 (what's this?) Purpleheart is an exotic wood with mechanical properties of the wood are reported to lie somewhere between those of Greenheart and Oak. It i... shop Purpleheart |
![]() | Quarter Sawn Maple Specific Gravity: 0.72 (what's this?) 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... shop Quarter Sawn Maple |
![]() | Quarter Sawn Oak Specific Gravity: 0.77 (what's this?) 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 ... shop Quarter Sawn Oak |
![]() | Quilted Bubinga Specific Gravity: 0.88 (what's this?) 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... shop Quilted Bubinga |
![]() | Quilted Sapele Specific Gravity: 0.62 (what's this?) 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... shop Quilted Sapele |
![]() | Quilted Western Maple Specific Gravity: 0.55 (what's this?) Western Maple, sometimes called big leaf maple, broadleaf maple, or white maple is pale pinkish-brown in color. There is very little color ... shop Quilted Western Maple |
![]() | Red Palm Specific Gravity: 0.56 (what's this?) Red Palm is an exotic wood with heartwood that is light yellow, with distinguishing red strings.... shop Red Palm |
![]() | Redheart Specific Gravity: 0.68 (what's this?) 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... shop Redheart |
![]() | Snakewood Specific Gravity: 1.30 (what's this?) Snakewood is an exotic wood known technically as piratinera guianensis, snakewood comes from a small, relatively rare tree found in the fore... shop Snakewood |
![]() | Spalted Maple Specific Gravity: 0.72 (what's this?) Spalted maple has dark veins caused by fungi in the wood. This wood is very decorative and therefore very popular with woodworkers.... shop Spalted Maple |
![]() | Spalted Tamarind Specific Gravity: 0.90 (what's this?) Spalted Tamarind is a beautiful exotic wood often found laying on the forest floor. The rotting effect on Tamarind creates the spalted look... shop Spalted Tamarind |
![]() | Tamboti Specific Gravity: 1.04 (what's this?) Tamboti is a heavy, strong, dense exotic wood. It has an oily nature, making sanding difficult, but does polish well and can be varnished. ... shop Tamboti |
![]() | Thuya Burl Specific Gravity: 0.67 (what's this?) 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 ... shop Thuya Burl |
![]() | Tornillo Specific Gravity: 0.44 (what's this?) Tornillo grows in the Loreton Huanuco provinces of Peru and in the humid terra firma of the Brazilian Amazon region. The heartwood is pale ... shop Tornillo |
![]() | Tulipwood Specific Gravity: 0.96 (what's this?) 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... shop Tulipwood |
![]() | Walnut Specific Gravity: 0.64 (what's this?) 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... shop Walnut |
![]() | Wenge Specific Gravity: 0.88 (what's this?) 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... shop Wenge |
![]() | Western Maple Burl Specific Gravity: 0.55 (what's this?) Maple burl is a growth on the big leaf maple tree, Acer macrophyllum. It has a uniform color with dramatic figure representing large eyes. ... shop Western Maple Burl |
![]() | White Ash Specific Gravity: 0.66 (what's this?) 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... shop White Ash |
![]() | Yellowheart Specific Gravity: 0.80 (what's this?) Yellowheart, an exotic wood also called Pau Amarello, can grow to more than 130 feet tall and 30" in diameter. It has large leaves upwards o... shop Yellowheart |
![]() | Zebrawood Specific Gravity: 0.74 (what's this?) 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... shop Zebrawood |
![]() | Ziricote Specific Gravity: 0.75 (what's this?) 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... shop Ziricote |















































































