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Mahogany

 

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Meranti

Meranti

Frequently called Philippine mahogany, this wood isn't mahogany at all.

www.woodmagazine.com

I didn’t know that it wasn’t real mahogany I knew it wasn’t a good mahogany

 

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Zero chance it being cedar

Mahogany has odd smell when sawn or sanded

 

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Ouch. But it still looks like some cedar we had growing up for making a grapevine trellis type of thing . My folks still have a few chunks just like that in the garage.

You and Easy should get together he thought Chestnut was oak
Cedar smells like cedar shavings that we had for hamsters, has a closed grain. Mahogany has an open grain similar to oak

The wood that Reggi has may actually have come from a shipping pallet or box from Southeast Asia, A friend gets shipments of materials from Malaysia and the pallet are made from really nice wood like that, his shipping manager uses all the wood and makes furniture from it.

 

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oh boy

https://www.rarewoodsusa.com/species/walnut-american/

https://www.rarewoodsusa.com/species/cedar-aromatic/

https://www.rarewoodsusa.com/species/?_species_search=mahogany

Meranti Is the New & Improved Philippine Mahogany

www.ipeoutlet.com

I did a porch in Meranti and I think that was kind of heavy but I cant remember