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Glen Blanchard
11-19-2007, 1:35 PM
I need a refresher please. If memory serves, Brazilian cherry is known as "jatoba". I'm looking for a wood named (I think) "movado" (or something close to that). Is that Peruvian cherry?

Thanks.

Bill Wyko
11-19-2007, 2:28 PM
Morado is the wood I think you are looking for. Or it could be Monterillo. Fair warning, monterillo smells like POOP when you sand it or turn it.

Rob Cohen
11-19-2007, 2:43 PM
Morado is Bolivian Rosewood or Pau Ferro, Machaerium scleroxylon. Jatoba (Hymenaea courbaril), is sometimes called Brazilian or South American Cherry, but is not in anyway related to cherry that We know
Rob

Glen Blanchard
11-19-2007, 6:55 PM
That's exactly the information I was looking for. Thanks y'all!!