American Beech

Beech heartwood with typically a pale cream color, sometimes with a pink or brown hue. The wood is prepared with steam, which gives the wood a more golden tone. The grain is straight  without much pattern to it. The texture is even and porous.

Black Walnut

Walnut has heartwood that can range from light greyish brown, to dark chocolate to a purple black. The sapwood is whitish to yellowish-brown. Many of the pieces we create use both heartwood and sapwood to give a true unique character. The texture of the wood is coarse with a dull luster.

Afromosia

Afromosia is yellowish brown, occasionally with a reddish or olive-colored hue, darkening with age and exposure to UV light. Narrow sapwood is pale yellow and is clearly differentiated from the heartwood. The grain is straight with a fine uniform texture.

American Cherry

Cherry heartwood is a light pinkish brown when freshly cut, darkening to a medium reddish brown with time and upon exposure to light. Wide sapwood is a pale yellowish color. It is not uncommon for items to contain at least some sapwood portions throughout.

African Mohogany

The color of African Mohogany is a light pinkish brown in colour. The wood darkens with exposure to a deep red. Its grain is straight and interlocked that gives it a noticable striped figure. The texture varies most often it has a medium coarseness. Heartwood is creamy white to yellowish.

African Padauk

The color of African Padauk wood is a vivid red orange that changes to bright red or coral pink over time. It has dark streaks running through the wood and the colour fades over time. Heartwood is white but also fades over time time to grey or brownish yellow with exposure to light.

Purpleheart

Purpleheart is heartwood that is various shades of purple from pale to dark. The colour darkens to a purplish brown over time with exposure. Minerals can cause the color to be uneven and vary from board to board. Purpleheart has straight grain but can sometimes be wavy or irregular.

White Ash

Ash heartwood is a light to medium brown color. Sapwood can be very wide, and tends to be a beige or light brown; not always clearly or sharply demarcated from heartwood. The grain is almost always straight and regular, though sometimes moderately curly or figured boards can be found.

Wenge

Wenge has heartwood is medium brown, sometimes with a reddish or yellowish hue, with nearly black streaks. Upon application of a wood finish (particularly an oil finish) the wood can become nearly black.

Zebrawood

Zebrawood has heartwood that is light brown or cream color with dark blackish brown streaks vaguely resembling a zebra’s stripes. Zebrawood has a fairly coarse texture and open pores. Grain is usually wavy or interlocked.