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Had a further look at this and some of my books...the most recent photo looks more like a mahogany...now if I reference the book World woods in colour and your cross cut section...Sapele pores are clustered rather than evenly spaced, African mahogany pores are clustered, Honduras mahogany pores are evenly spaced throughout the wood, Iroko pores are scattered and coarser and is browner....might be worth a look at the trada database

Perhaps you have a proper mahogany

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16 hours ago, aswales said:

Had a further look at this and some of my books...the most recent photo looks more like a mahogany...now if I reference the book World woods in colour and your cross cut section...Sapele pores are clustered rather than evenly spaced, African mahogany pores are clustered, Honduras mahogany pores are evenly spaced throughout the wood, Iroko pores are scattered and coarser and is browner....might be worth a look at the trada database

Perhaps you have a proper mahogany

Thanks for looking into this aswales. I've been studying the online notes and pictures for The Wood Database, and other online stuff, but am conscious it is too easy to become biased towards the answer I'd like! Seems to be quite subtle differences between different mahogany types and sub species and difficult to pick out what would give a definite answer. So an independent view is appreciated.

 

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Hi I have access to a lot of Mahogany of different species from a mate of mine who has been importing for like 40yrs I will send him those photos and see what he thinks thats if I can make the link work as I am not known for my computer skills if you do find out what it is and want any more do give me a call .Cheers Mark

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Differences are subtle between all of the shall I say "mahoganys, mahogany type/mahogany substitute" timbers ...have quite a few different bits kicking around..

best people I've come across at identifying are in the timber buying trade......time served and well travelled...

 

 

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12 hours ago, gobbypunk said:

Hi I have access to a lot of Mahogany of different species from a mate of mine who has been importing for like 40yrs I will send him those photos and see what he thinks thats if I can make the link work as I am not known for my computer skills if you do find out what it is and want any more do give me a call .Cheers Mark

wouldn't bother mark, Ron's not actually any good at identifying species...

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13 hours ago, ucoulddoit said:

Thanks for looking into this aswales. I've been studying the online notes and pictures for The Wood Database, and other online stuff, but am conscious it is too easy to become biased towards the answer I'd like! Seems to be quite subtle differences between different mahogany types and sub species and difficult to pick out what would give a definite answer. So an independent view is appreciated.

 

Andrew

hi Andrew, i must be honest the first gut notion took me in the direction of the Khaya genus which are the African mahogany group.

 

happy for you to send me a sample of you want me to make sure. you are best off messaging me on facebook as i can see Arbtalk on my own computer. i'll message you my profile.

 

just for your information Honduran Brazilian and Cuban are effectively the same wood.

yes there are two different species in the genus Swietenia but they are not discernable from one another.

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