Woods : Compton Customs

	JOBILLO - (Ho be yo) Astronium Graveolens) - Jobillo from Central America has a light reddish brown heartwood streaked with sharply contrasting dark reddish to black band that resemble burn marks. This wood is hard and heavy. This member of the cashew family produces stunning pieces because of contrasting nature of its stripes.
	BLOODWOOD - (brosimum paraense) - Bloodwood or "cardinal wood" as it is commonly referred to, is a medium to hard wood with red to crimson color and tight straight interlocking grain. South America.
	BRAZILIAN CHERRY - (Hymenaea courbaril) - Reddish brown color and mahogany-like grain. Color deepens with exposure to light. Central and South America.
	MAKORE - (Mimusops Heckelii) - Also known as African cherry, comes from Central Africa along the western coast. The heartwood is pink to pinkish-brown, and the sapwood is slightly lighter. Makore is highly durable and is used in furniture, cabinetry and turning.
	MARBLEWOOD - (Marmaroxylon racemosum) - Is straight grained and smooth with a fine, even texture. The heartwood is yellow-beige with maroon to black wavy streaks, which gives it a marble like appearance.
	MAHOGANY - Is a medium density hardwood, pale brown to pink to dark reddish brown. Has a firm straight to wavy grain. Great workability with hand and machine tools and takes detail very well, this makes it desired woodworkers world wide.
	PADUAK - (Pa duk) (Pterocarpus soyauxii) - Medium to hard wood, heartwood is deep orange red that will age to a deeper orange brown. Paduak has a moderately coarse grain texture with straight to interlocking grain patterns. West Africa.
	PURPLE HEART - (Peltogyne) - Is a very dense wood with tight straight grain. The wood is bright purple and will darken to a brownish purple with sun exposure. Central and South America
	SAPELE -(Entandrophragma cylindricum) - Has a rich, lustrous, and variable reddish-brown color. Used for quality furniture and cabinetmaking, solid doors, and musical instruments. Africa.
	YELLOW HEART - (Euxylophora paraensis) - Fine straight grained hardwood with bright yellow color throughout the wood. Great for adding accents to projects. Central America.
	WILD RED TAMBRAN - Medium textured and interlocked grain that resembles mahogany and also produces mild ribbon figure in quarter sawn boards. Hard, heavy, and strikingly attractive wood has a russet to reddish brown with a slight tinge of yellow and orange. The wood is great for furniture, interior millwork, doors, general carpentry, industrial floors, and beams. Central America And many Caribbean Islands
	LEOPARDWOOD -(panopsis rubellens) - Has a flaky figure with dark flecks varying from a small lacelike pattern to a larger splashy figure. Leopardwood is commonly used to make fine furniture and is a pale pinkish brown to medium brown in color. South America, Brazil, Chile
	ASH - (Fraxinus americana) - Light brown heartwood with almost all white sapwood. Straight grain with coarse texture, and has excellent bending properties and shock resistance. USA.
	CHERRY - (Prunus serotina) - Hard straight grained with firm texture. Heartwood is reddish brown to deep red, with brown flecks, and will naturally darken with age. USA.
	ROCK MAPLE - (Acer Saccharum) - Is a hard straight grained wood with a fine texture. Wood is very light in color and can be found with many figured grain pattern. Also this wood is susceptible to spaulting which is created by a fungus. It is harmless but creates beautiful dark grain patterns desired by furniture builders. American
	BLACK WALNUT - (Juglans nigra) - Tough wood with even but coarse texture, straight grained with occasional wavy grain patterns. Sapwood is light in color contrasting with the rich dark chocolate brown to purplish black heartwood. Canada and USA.
	HICKORY - (Carya spp) - Westward trekking pioneers made hickory a prerequisite for their wagon wheels. Hickory is the hardest, heaviest and strongest American wood in the common use. The sapwood of hickory is white, tinged with inconspicuous fine brown lines while the heartwood is pale to reddish brown. Both are coarse-textured and the grain is fine, usually straight but can be wavy or irregular. The density and strength of the hickories will vary according to the rate of growth, with the true hickories generally showing higher values than the pecan hickories.
	CANARY WOOD - (Liriodendron Tulipifera) - Its heartwood varies from pale yellowish-brown to pale olive-brown streaked with olive-green, dark gray, or pinkish-brown, and when its mineral stained it will have streaks of steal blue. Canarywood is commonly used in cabinetmaking and for molding on the interior of boats. Brazil
	IMBUIA - (Phoebe porosa) -Its color ranges from a yellowish tone or olive all the way to chocolate brown. Imbuia is commonly used as outdoor decking due to its high resistance to decay, marring, denting, and wear. Brazil
	ZEBRA WOOD - (Microberlinia Brazzavillenis) The heartwood is golden-yellow with narrow veining or streaks of dark brown or black, which gives the wood a zebra like apperence. Due to the woods unique grain pattern it is most commonly used as veneers or for marquetry. West Africa