Wood Species

Ash / Teak / Cherry / Cypress / Bubinga / Maple / Mahogany / Brazilian Ash / Red Oak
Walnut / Alder / White Oak / Birch / Padauk / Wenge / Zebrawood / Bolivian Rosewood / Carob

Ash
Ash is a beautiful white to gray-ish colored wood. It is open grained and has a strong and pronounced grain pattern.

Cherry
Cherry is a light reddish brown color that darkens with age. Cherry is a fine and especially stable uniform close-grained wood.

Cypress
Cypress has a brown sugar color and has a soft grain.

Maple
Maple is a strong, hard, wear-resistant wood. It stains and finishes well. It has a fine, even texture and grain.

Mahogany
Mahogany is a strong wood. It has a distinct and beautiful grain. Its stability, warm appearance and firm grain make it a favorite.

Red Oak
Red Oak is a strong, reddish brown wood, which exhibits beautiful grain texture.

Walnut
Walnut is hard, dense, tight-grained wood and polishes to a very smooth finish. The color ranges from a dull brown to a dark chocolate color. Its grain pattern variations are extensive.

White Oak
White Oak is a light tannish brown wood with an open fine grain. It is hard, strong and has good weathering characteristics making its use for selected exterior applications appropriate.

Birch
Birch is a strong wood that works well with Maple because of its similar fine grain and light color. .

Alder
This peach-colored wood is often substituted for cherry, with a similar tight, even grain, though it is somewhat lighter in appearance. Light weight, fairly soft. A hardwood from the Pacific Northwest. It is very consistent in color and takes stain well.

Bubinga
The naturally opulent dark colors of Bubinga are prized for fine furniture. The dark reddish colors are mixed with stripes of dark brown and purplish hue. Bubinga -- even the name sounds exotic. This tropical hardwood is heavy and strong; it can be substituted for Rosewood, finishing to a dark, rich color as it ages.

Wenge
Heartwood is yellow-brown turning dark brown to almost black with alternate layers of light and dark Moderate variations in color.

Brazilian Ash
Light colored wood in tones from white to buff and deep yellow. With a straight even grain, the appearance of small stable knots presents a pleasing visual effect and very little change in color with time.

Padauk
Padauk is bright orange red in color and has good grain definition. It is a little oily and heavy. Heartwood is vivid reddish orange.darkening to reddish - or purple-brown or black over time. Very uniform in color. Straight grain and course texture.

Bolivian Rosewood
Is a beautiful wood with black striping on top of a dark brown background. Bolivian Rosewood undergoes a substantial degree of color change as the wood lightens over time and more so in direct sunlight from the darker brown tones to lighter gold/tan tones with a muting the fresh milled color variation

Zebrawood
Is a golden-yellow with narrow veining or streaks of dark brown to black which gives surfaces a zebra-stripe appearance. Grain is interlocked or wavy and produces alternating hard and soft grains.

Teak
Heartwood varies from yellow-brown to dark golden brown; turns rich brown under exposure to sunlight. It has a straight grain and a coarse and uneven texture. Moderate to high color variation.

Carob
Coming Soon.