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Rick Akl
05-04-2010, 2:33 PM
I saw this piece at Shell Lumber listed as jatoba. I have never seen this pattern on jatoba before. If it is jatoba, what do they call this pattern?

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh176/ito77/P5040061.jpg

Glen Butler
05-04-2010, 7:43 PM
Figured? Not every figure has a name. Look here and you can determine if you question its jatobaness.

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/jatoba.htm

Rick Akl
05-04-2010, 9:51 PM
I'm sold.
Thanks

Ray McCullie
05-05-2010, 4:02 AM
Looks like a burl figure to me. Based on Rick Peter's guide to wood book. Also says most burls are small so if you found a good sized board it's rare. As to it being Jatoba, I seem to recall reading about a wood that was often confused with it but am not going to read all 64 of the write ups to find it right now. It looks close enough to the pictures of it but not quite as reddish.