Honduran mahogany. The light or heavy material?

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Kevin in California
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Re: Honduran mahogany. The light or heavy material?

Post by Kevin in California » Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:56 pm

Herman, the dark one looks alot like Sapele to me. It is much denser/harder then honduran hog.

ken cierp
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Re: Honduran mahogany. The light or heavy material?

Post by ken cierp » Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:05 pm

the dark one looks alot like Sapele to me.
Exactly my first impression, could the seller have mis-marked?

Kevin in California
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Re: Honduran mahogany. The light or heavy material?

Post by Kevin in California » Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:52 pm

Actually it also looks a lot like the billet of Santos Mahogany I resawed. It had the white mineral deposits in the grain like that one looks to have. They did clean up with acetone for me.

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Re: Honduran mahogany. The light or heavy material?

Post by Tim Benware » Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:33 pm

If they mis-marked it, someone did the same thing to me because mine was just as dark. I did compare it to the Honduran I had and other than the level of darkness they looked the same but I'm not an expert at that kind of identification.
I've "Ben-Had" again!
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Jim Ebert
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Re: Honduran mahogany. The light or heavy material?

Post by Jim Ebert » Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:48 am

I have the exact same situation sitting on my bench right now. two different billets from two lumber yards that I visited in Pennsylvania. Both were represented as Honduran. I had them shipped to another builders house who I had met there the day before the ASIA symposium. When I pick them up from his house it was obvious that they were two different woods. I am fairly certain that the darker and much more dense billet is sapele. I would add a photo but my phone isn't co-operating.
Jim

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