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what you think this wood is.


I think it is ziricote. Never worked with ziricote before. It REALLY gummed up the thickness sander.

Thanks

Bocote?

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It's hard to tell from a picture - possibly bocote, ziricote, or lauro preto, come to mind, but a number of other woods are possible.
Personally, I would be inclined to trim off the sapwood and then book match the other way to maximize what appears to be the quarter sawn portion of the board and minimize the off quarter wood.
Before I trim wood off I hold a mirror 90 degrees to the wood on the proposed trim line to see what the book match will look like.

I’m with Clay, accept, I’d leave the sapwood.

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I also would guess ziricote or bocote. If you sand it and it smells like pickles it’s bocote. I’ve built a few with both.


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Here is some lauro preto under finish:

ziricote

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That was my first thought too.

Ziribocote

Pat

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Cocobolo?

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Looks like bocote to me, and it is oily so clogs up the sandpaper as you describe. If it is bocote - like Brad said - the smell will confirm it. I don't think of pickles; more like a citrus smell to me; but pickled lime could be right. Anyway, quite a distinctive and spicy smell. Zirocote smells more like chocolate. Zebrawood can look like that too, but usually more yellow. You can easily know that one by its smell - horse poop.

For me thats a 99,9% hit for Bocote, the siter of Ziricote.
The plates sould be jointed the other way round, like stated above.

It COULD be also Ziricote, put for me, now, that´s Bocote....

Although I might have joined it the other way around, I think this joining actually makes a marvelous display of the figure.

its 100% ziricote

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My first thought was bocote and maybe ziricote. Daves wood has some features that don't fit what I think is often typical of those woods.

But I took the top 3 billets of bocote from a pile, a reject ziri side and a couple ziri fingerboard billets and snapped some pictures. All the pics are fairly typical of what I see in those woods.

I think Daves wood is ziri or maybe something else all together.


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I trust Aaron's opinion but I am curious what he see's that is the dead give away. Perhaps it's just experience. I was never good with these type threads