One of the most highly coveted exotic hardwoods on Earth is Santos Mahogany. It has exceptional beauty and other sterling characteristics and properties that every woodworker would indeed love to have in wood. It has a lovely reddish-brown to deep-red hue and remains dimensionally stable and beautiful over time. It also features excellent tight grain … Read more
Have you ever harvested apples from the Apple tree? I guess you have, and I am sure the apple fruits captivated your eyes more than the apple wood. If you’re not a woodworker, you may not even ask whether an Apple tree is hardwood or softwood. Yet, if you’re a die-hard woodworker, you will know … Read more
If you live in the dry region of North America, you might be familiar with Mesquite. Mesquite, of course, is a common name for many plants under the genus Prosopis. Besides, there are around forty species of trees under this genus. Mesquite, of course, is deciduous, which sheds its leaves during autumn. Mesquite, of course, … Read more
If you have taken Latin courses in the past, you might be familiar with the Latin phrase “Lignum Vitae.” Of course, Vitae is the genitive form of “vita” and means “of life.” Lignum, on the other hand, means “wood.” Taken together, Lignum Vitae means wood of life. Lignum Vitae is called “the wood of life” because of its … Read more
Imagine you are working on Snakewood and sweating it out to whip this wood into shape. Well, such an imaginative scenario might happen if you ever got access to Snakewood. But what is Snakewood, and why will you sweat a lot when cutting Snakewood? The reason is quite apparent. It is because Snakewood is very … Read more
If you want the most rigid and densest wood on Earth, you should check out the Patagonian Rosewood. It is, without doubt, a rare and exotic wood species characterized by a combination of exquisite beauty and extreme hardness with a Hardness Janka rating of 3840 lbf. It will not crack up easily and will last … Read more
Do you know that Australian Buloke is considered the hardest hardwood on Earth available commercially? Yes, you heard it right, but you might be unfamiliar with this wood because it is rarely available in the market. Its scientific name is Allocasuarina luehmannii, referred to as the “Australian Ironwood Tree” or “Bull-oak” It has a Janka Hardness … Read more
Merbau, being a hardwood, is a deciduous tree. It gets harvested from tropical forests of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Fiji, Madagascar, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Samoa, and North Queensland, Australia. It can reach a height of 40 meters and has a trunk as wide as 0.6 meters. It is a bushy tree … Read more
You might be familiar with Tiger Woods, the most popular golf player in the world today. But you might not be familiar with Tigerwood unless you are a woodworking aficionado. Tigerwood is an exotic hardwood species characterized by vibrant reddish-brown hues with unique black striping, similar to the tiger’s stripes. Moreover, these stripes vary in … Read more