New African Wood Species at Woodcraft

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eharri446

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I was in my local Woodcraft store on Tuesday and they had just received a new shipment of goods and they had some wood board of a species called Beli.

It looks a lot like Zebra wood except that the grain is much tighter.

Since I had never heard of this wood, I looked it up in The Wood Database and found out that it was native to Africa and was not normally seen outside of that continent.

By the way, I did purchase one board the was 3/4 x 3 x 36 to cut up into pen blanks. The piece had a great grain pattern and was unusual in that on one end the grain was almost quarter sawn, while on the other end it was more on a diagonal bias.

Once I cut up some blanks I will post some pictures of what it looks like before and after.
 
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