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Malagasy
Rosewood This rare Brazilian Tulipwood look-a-like is a true Dalbergia species and like many others in the genus it has flashy color, an aromatic smell, is fairly hard and heavy, and is very stable in use. These pieces were originally cut as guitar fingerboards, for which they are excellent, but they can also be used for box sides, drawer fronts, etc. #IW21768A
5/16 x 2 7/8-3 x 20 3/8" $20.00-sold
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Malagasy
Rosewood This rare Brazilian Tulipwood look-a-like is a true Dalbergia species and like many others in the genus it has flashy color, an aromatic smell, is fairly hard and heavy, and is very stable in use. These pieces were originally cut as guitar fingerboards, for which they are excellent, but they can also be used for box sides, drawer fronts, etc. #IW21769A
5/16 x 2 7/8-3 x 20 3/8" $20.00-sold
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Guatemalan
Rosewood This Rosewood species has a reddish-brown to dark brown colored heartwood contrasting the almost white sapwood. The dust has a sweet odor. As an acoustic guitar wood it has a very "crisp" tap tone with good sustain. #IW21309A
3/8 x 2 9/16 x 20 7/16" $12.00-sold
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Santos Rosewood This wood has gained in popularity since the early 1990's when Brazilian Rosewood was designated an endangered species. Furniture manufacturers used it as a Brazilian Rosewood substitute but it stands on its own as an instrument tone wood. Quartersawn. #IW21687A
5/16 x 3 x 27-27 ½" $22.00-sold
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Voamboana This is a rare Rosewood from Madagascar. Looks & smells much like Mexican Kingwood or Camotilla. Hard and heavy and will take a beautiful, high polish. Quartersawn. #IW21688A
5/16-3/8 x 3-3 1/8 x 27 3/8" $22.00-sold
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Bois de Rose Bois de Rose is a true rosewood from Madagascar and is little known on the world timber market. It is a deep burgundy color, sometimes with darker striping and darkens on exposure. It is hard and heavy and takes a high, glassy- smooth polish. This wood has a tap tone more like old Brazilian Rosewood than any other species we have cut. We have had this since the 1980's and the little we have in stock is irreplaceable. Quartersawn. #IW21781A
5/16-3/8 x 2 7/8-3 x 20 1/2-21 3/4" (minor defect) $15.00 ______________________________________________
Bois de Rose
Bois de Rose is a true rosewood from Madagascar and is little known on the world timber market. It is a deep burgundy color, sometimes with darker striping and darkens on exposure. It is hard and heavy and takes a high, glassy- smooth polish. This wood has a tap tone more like old Brazilian Rosewood than any other species we have cut. We have had this since the 1980's and the little we have in stock is irreplaceable. Quartersawn.. #IW21782A
5/16-3/8 x 2 7/8-3 x 20 1/2-21 3/4" $25.00 ______________________________________________
Bois de Rose Bois de Rose is a true rosewood from Madagascar and is little known on the world timber market. It is a deep burgundy color, sometimes with darker striping and darkens on exposure. It is hard and heavy and takes a high, glassy- smooth polish. This wood has a tap tone more like old Brazilian Rosewood than any other species we have cut. We have had this since the 1980's and the little we have in stock is irreplaceable. Quartersawn. #IW21783A
5/16-3/8 x 2 7/8-3 x 20 1/2-21 3/4" $25.00-sold
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Bois de Rose Bois de Rose is a true rosewood from Madagascar and is little known on the world timber market. It is a deep burgundy color, sometimes with darker striping and darkens on exposure. It is hard and heavy and takes a high, glassy- smooth polish. This wood has a tap tone more like old Brazilian Rosewood than any other species we have cut. We have had this since the 1980's and the little we have in stock is irreplaceable. Quartersawn. #IW21784A
5/16-3/8 x 2 7/8-3 x 20 1/2-21 3/4" $25.00-sold
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Honduras
Rosewood This hard and heavy Rosewood is a pinkish to purple color. It is a classic instrument wood, well known for marimba bars and fingerboards for guitars, banjos, mandolins, etc. Old stock. Quartersawn. #IW21763A
5/16 x 2 13/16-2 7/8 x 26 1/2" $12.50 ______________________________________________
Honduras
Rosewood This hard and heavy Rosewood is a pinkish to purple color. It is a classic instrument wood, well known for marimba bars and fingerboards for guitars, banjos, mandolins, etc. Old stock. Quartersawn. #IW21764A
5/16 x 2 13/16-2 7/8 x 26 1/2" $20.00 ______________________________________________
Cambodian
Rosewood Hard
& heavy, fine-grained, and capable of taking a glassy-smooth polish.
Seldom seen on the American market. Old stock & well air-dried.
Quartersawn. #IW21551A
3/8 x 3 x 20 ½" $22.00-sold
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Ziricote This rare wood is from the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and very little is seen on the market anymore. The grain on the quartersawn surface exhibits a beautiful "landscape" figuring quite unique to this species. Air-dried. Rare. #IW21638A
3/8 x 2 9/16 x 20" $22.00-sold
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______________________________________________ African Blackwood The heartwood is purplish to brownish-black with dark gray streaks giving an overall impression of being black. Lustrous with an attractive inner chatoyance. Very hard, heavy, close-grained, and virtually free from pores. Its stability and lovely tonal qualities make it an excellent instrument wood. Select grade. Quartersawn. #IW22094A
3/8 x 2 1/2 x 20" $50.00-sold
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Snakewood
click on photo for close-up #IW20946A
3/8 x 2 7/16 x 20 ¼" $110.00-sold
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Palisander One of several rosewood species from Madagascar. It has beautiful color and grain, a sweet smell, and is very easy to work and stable in use. It is a very close match to true Rio or Brazilian Rosewood (Dalbergia nigra) and as such is much in demand for musical instruments, especially guitars. Quartersawn. #IW21204A
3/8 x 2 11/16 x 20-20 1/8" $20.00-sold
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Guatemalan
Rosewood This Rosewood species has a reddish-brown to dark brown colored heartwood contrasting the almost white sapwood. The dust has a sweet odor. It is an excellent furniture/case works/jewelry box wood and even though it has a medium texture it does take a nice polish. It has a very "crisp" tap tone with good sustain. Quartersawn. #IW21179A
3/8 x 2 11/16 x 20 1/8" $18.00 ______________________________________________
Palisander One of several rosewood species from Madagascar. It has beautiful color and grain, a sweet smell, and is very easy to work and stable in use. It is a very close match to true Rio or Brazilian Rosewood (Dalbergia nigra) and as such is much in demand for musical instruments, especially guitars. Quartersawn with matching color and grain. #IW21155A ______________________________________________
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East Indian
Rosewood This is grown on plantations in Indonesia where it is called Sonokeling. These fingerboards came from a trees large enough and old enough to look much like the old-growth lumber from India. Quartersawn. #IW20380A
5/16-3/8 x 2 ½-2 9/16 x 20-21" $10.00-sold
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East Indian
Rosewood #IW20315A
3/8 x 4 1/8 x 29 ½" $25.00 ______________________________________________
Malagasy
Rosewood This rare Brazilian Tulipwood look-a-like is a true Dalbergia species and like many others in the genus it has flashy color, an aromatic smell, is fairly hard and heavy, and is very stable in use. These pieces were originally cut as guitar fingerboards, for which they are excellent, but they can also be used for box sides, drawer fronts, etc. Quartersawn. #IW20298A
5/16 x 2 7/8 x 20 ¾-21" $22.00-sold
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Bois de Rose
Bois de Rose is a true rosewood from Madagascar and is little known on the world timber market. It is a deep burgundy color, sometimes with darker striping and darkens on exposure. It is hard and heavy and takes a high, glassy- smooth polish. Quartersawn. #IW20293A
3/8 x 2 7/8-3 x 20 ¾-21" $22.00 ______________________________________________
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Ziricote This rare wood is from the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and very little is seen on the market anymore. The grain on the quartersawn surface exhibits a beautiful "landscape" figuring quite unique to this species. Air-dried. Rare. #IW20443A
5/16-3/8 x 2 ½ x 20" $25.00 ______________________________________________
Marc Culbertson, Manager, Musical Instrument Division (503) 274-1271 click here to e-mail inquiry or order Fax (503) 274-9839 800# 1-888-667-3979
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