Hi all. So I recently returned from Costa Rica and while I was there I picked up some (seemingly) very exotic looking mango wood. I got home, all excited to start making pens out of it, and I cut into it only to find that things weren't as they seemed. As you can see by the picture, the finished outside and the actual interior of the wood are VERY different. I was wondering if anybody has worked with mango wood before and encountered this, and if there is some sort of special finishing process that needs to be applied.
Mate, what you've got here, as far as I believe, is a very silly wood grain imitation that doesn't exist, made by using special paints on top of water surface, normally done in a large open container, and yes, the member above my post got it right, there are many videos showing how its done...!
I have attached the same pic with some notations...!
Now, let me ask you this;
Since when, any wood species have the same grain colour and pattern on the sapwood, heartwood and bark.
Tell me one wood species on this Earth that has the same grain colours and patterns on the face and end-grain...???
My observations are based upon what I see in the pic, if I'm wrong, I would like to be corrected..!
Why would anyone think in do such a thing, unless with the purpose of a joke or testing us..???
Very silly, indeed..!
What do you think...???
Cheers
George