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Our focus is creating timeless furniture pieces made of beautiful woods from the United States and around the world. We offer all of the American favorites such as Cherry, Walnut, Mahogany, and White and Red Oak. We also use a large variety of exotic woods from around the world that provide wonderful texture and color in their grain pattern including Jatoba, Wenge, Honduras Mahogany, Zebrawood, Purpleheart, Padauk, and many others. |  |
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Unique: We leverage the beauty that nature provides in the design and creation of our unique solid hardwood furniture pieces. Elegant: Nature provides beautiful color and wondrous patterns that when combined and matched provides the foundation for creating natural elegance. Heirloom Quality: Crafted mostly from hardwoods, crafted with premium fasteners, and finished using a full seven steps, our quality and durability is beyond what you have come to expect. |  |
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Designed for elegance and function, Our handcrafted wooden furniture pieces are built to last while complimenting your existing decor. We use a variety of hardwoods including the American favorites cherry, walnut and red oak. Exotic hardwoods such as purple Heart, Padouk, wenge, Zebra Wood and others can also provide rich additions to your home or office. |  |
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Wood Description: Bloodwood (Brosimum paraense) is the common name for several unrelated groups of trees. One such group includes deciduous South American trees with large yellow-orange flowers. It yields a thick red juice which is often used in the production of black dyes. The name bloodwood for these trees stems from the dark red to brown sap that accumulates on wounds on the trunks.
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Wood Description: Cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa) is a hardwood from Central America. It has great beauty and high value. The species is in danger of extinction outside of national parks and reserves. Due to this, only a small amount makes it to the world market and it is expensive.
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Wood Description: Wenge, also known as African/Congolese rosewood, is a tropical timber from Africa.
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Wood Description: Bubinga is a beautiful African wood species that is very dense and heavy. Imported logs are reported to weigh as much as 10 tons.
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Color: Its wood is generally from a light pink to a deep blood-red, and is incredibly dense. |
Color: Variegated orange, yellow dark red with irregular black stripes. It is known to change color after being cut. |
Color: The heartwood is very dark and dense and the sapwood is a distinctive pale yellow. The distinctive partridge grain pattern includes black grains separated by dark brown grains. |
Color: The heartwood is reddish-brown in color, with lighter red to purple veins. Upon exposure, the wood becomes yellow or medium brown with a reddish tint, and the veining becomes less conspicuous. The sapwood is whitish in color. |
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Tree Characteristics: The Nature Conservancy considers this tree secure within its native range. |
Tree Characteristics: A small to medium tree. Matures to heights over 45-60 feet. Trunks are 18-24". It is also very dense, and even a large block of the cut wood will produce a clear musical tone when struck. |
Tree Characteristics: The trees grow to a height of approximately 20 meters with a trunk of up to 1 meter in diameter. |
Tree Characteristics: The trees are reported to reach heights of more than 100 feet and trunk diameters of 36 inches. Grain is interlocked and texture is fine. Mottle and roey figure is common in quarter-sawn boards. |
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Wood Characteristics: Hard and heavy but not difficult to work. The wood has a fine texture and has natural ability to take a polish. The wood has a tendency to blunt tools. |
Wood Characteristics: Hard and heavy. Works and turns well and finishes very smoothly. Oils in the wood produce a natural polish but may cause problems with lacquer or urethane finishes. It is fine textured and oily in look and feel, and stands up well to repeated handling and exposure to water. Care must be used when working this wood, as its sawdust is dangerous. A sawdust collecting system must be in operation. |
Wood Characteristics: Strong and stable. The wood is popular in woodturning and is commonly used mixed with lighter woods such as white oak. Care must be used when working this wood, as its sawdust is dangerous. A sawdust collecting system must be in operation.
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Wood Characteristics: Very stable. Works easily with hand or power tools. Moderate to severe blunting of cutters. Pre-drilling required for nailing or screwing. Gluing can be difficult due to gum pockets. Stains easily and can be brought to an excellent finish. It has low steam bending characteristics.
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Typical Uses: Furniture, cabinets, tourist novelties in Brazil.
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Typical Uses: Fine inlay work, brush backs, knife handles, musical instruments, pistol grips, decorative and figured veneers, bowls, jewelry boxes, luxury pens and other expensive specialty items. |
Typical Uses: High-end and custom musical instruments and fine furniture.
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Typical Uses: Primarily used as a veneer for cabinetwork (called Kevasingo), furniture, and paneling. Also used for knife handles, and fancy goods. |
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Source Region: Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Brazil. |
Source Region: Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua .
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Source Region: African countries of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon, Tanzania and Mozambique. |
Source Region: African countries of Cameroons, Gabon, the Ivory Coast, and Zaire. |
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Wood Description: Purpleheart is a genus of 23 species of flowering plants native to tropical rainforests. The wood is also known as Amaranth and Violet Wood. Unfortunately, over harvesting has caused several species to become endangered in areas where they were once abundant.
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Wood Description: Any of several species of tropical trees. They are highly prized as shade trees and for their red or reddish brown wood. The blood-red sap is used commercially for red dye.
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Wood Description: Lacewood is an Australian wood with large, pronounced meduliary flecks. Meduliary rays are columns of wood fiber that run transversely to the main fibers. When cut, the rays can produce visible fleck patters in lumber producing a very unusual and interesting look.
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Wood Description: Zebrawood, also known as Zebron, is used for wood with a figure that reminds of the striping of a Zebra. |
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Color: The trees are prized for their beautiful heartwood which, turns from a dark brown to a rich purple color. Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light darkens the wood to a brown color with a hue of the original purple. This effect is minimized when using finishes containing a UV inhibitor. Lacquer finish will best preserve the color.
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Color: A reddish wood that when freshly cut, is a very bright red but when exposed to sunlight fades over time to a beautiful burnt umber. The sapwood is white when freshly cut, but turns to brownish yellow or gray upon exposure.
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Color: Pale to darker orange-brown. |
Color: The heartwood is a pale golden yellow, distinct from the very pale color of the sapwood and features narrow streaks of dark brown to black. Zebrawood can also be a pale brown with regular or irregular marks of dark brown in varying widths. |
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Tree Characteristics: Medium to large trees growing to 100 - 150 feet tall, with trunk diameters of up to 4.5 feet. |
Tree Characteristics: The tree is reported to reach heights of 100 to 130 feet, with trunk diameters that are usually 24 to 48 inches, but sometimes reach 60 inches. Boles are often straight and cylindrical, and are clear of branches to about 70 feet. It often grows in small groups and is reported to be common in dense equatorial rain forests.
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. Tree Characteristics: Typically tall and straight, up to 120 feet, and with diameters as large as 48".
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Tree Characteristics: They are an equatorial tree of medium to large size and commonly grow in pure strands along riverbanks. They can grow to heights of 150 feet with trunk diameters of 4 to 5 feet. It is difficult to finish because of the dual nature of the grain but finishes well once it's filled. The wood itself has a lustrous appearance. This wood is easy to saw but difficult to work with. This wood rates as the worst to plane.
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Wood Characteristics: The wood is very hard and dense. Grain is usually straight often with a fine curly figure and has a fine texture. Moderately hard to work but takes a glossy, lustrous finish. The dust can cause nausea. |
Wood Characteristics: Valued for toughness, stability in use, and decorativeness. The heartwood is durable and can last for more than 25 years in contact with the ground without any preservative treatment. Very resistant to attack by termites. It has an open pore, cuts easily but has a coarse texture, so can splinter off when routing.
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Wood Characteristics: Moderately hard with coarse texture. |
Wood Characteristics: Heavy hard wood, 36-45 pounds per cubic foot, with a somewhat coarse texture. Has typical so-called zebra stripes, often with an interlocked or wavy grain. |
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Typical Uses: Fine inlay work, woodturning,cabinetry, and furniture.
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Typical Uses: Furniture, inlays, flooring, knife handles, veneer, and tool handles.
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Typical Uses: Furniture, gunstocks, decorative veneers, cabinetry, interior woodwork. |
Typical Uses: Custom furniture, furniture trim, inlay bandings, skis, tool handles, turnery and in limited ways for veneer and wall paneling. Has limited availability and is high priced. |
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Source Region: Mexico to Tropical South America
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Source Region: Central and tropical West Africa and Asia. African source most often found. |
Source Region: Australia
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Source Region: Most common species available are from West Africa, (Gabon, Cameroon, and Congo).
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