I found a good price on 8/4 Sapele, the boards were very nice, milled two sides but still very close to 8/4. A little over 100 BF followed me home. Today I couldn't resist as I have never worked Sapele, I had to see how it worked. I chopped 800mm off one end, trued a face and edge and then resawed a couple of boards off. For as heavy and dense as it is it resawed very easily and it came off the machines in pretty good shape. Once on the bench, I found grain direction almost impossible to read by looking and even by feel there wasn't much difference but when you put an iron to it you would know :-). It wasn't hard to work, although I did have to re-sharpen what I thought was a sharp iron about half way through.
Plans are to make a small box from today's wood. I expect I will finish it with BLO or maybe shellac and BLO, anyone have experience with Sapele?