A friend has asked me to make a wooden urn for her father's ashes. He lived in Taiwan, Canada and the US. I'd like to use woods from those countries. The box will be primarily cherry, with some maple, and a third wood from Taiwan, hopefully.
I've read that camphor grows in Taiwan, but I can't get it anywhere I know of in southern California. A local lumber yard told me red balau comes from Taiwan, but it seems dense and brittle to me - I'd like to be able to carve the wood.
Does anyone have any knowledge of a wood associated with Taiwan that I might be able to use?
thanks, Mark