Can you ID this wood?

[Brian Brown]

Apparently this is wood ID day. I bought 2 grab bags of pen blanks for $8 each at an estate sale a couple of weeks ago, and these were in one of the bags (my wallet took a much more severe beating than $16). I don't know what kind of wood this is, but it has the tightest and most consistent curl I have ever seen in wood. The best I can figure is that it might be curly Hawaiian koa. Does anybody have another guess, possibly more educated. I don't know if this helps, but they were likely purchased at a Woodcraft store. Nearly all of the other woodturning items at the sale had Woodcraft price tags on them.

[Christopher Collins]

that's pretty tight curl. Koa's a good guess.
It might also be curly mango. That stuff can have incredibly tight figure.
Also possibly some kind of gidgee, an australian group of Acacia species. maybe ringed gidgee?

[Dan Masshardt]

Yup. It's curly Koa. Nice blanks.

[mike ash]

I agree with highly figured Koa. And......just to make you feel good about your purchase, was on Kauaii a few weeks ago looking at highly figured Koa. This guy had a 2"x 12" x 24" board for $850!!!! That's $212.50/BF!! I left it on the Island.