This is one of the world’s most loved and prized veneers. It ranges in color from lustrous chocolate-brown to purple-black with cream-colored sapwood—all very saturated with vivid contrast. It has a lively variegated stripe and occasional bee’s wing figure and, when flat cut, produces a characteristic cathedral pattern. Increasingly used as a substitute for the extremely rare but prized Rio rosewood.


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