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   forestgirl | Nov 08, 2004 08:09pm | #1

   Monkeywood is the actual name of the wood.  I couldn't find any information on its country of origin, but its characteristics relative to cocobolo can be seen on the following page (3rd pic down):

   http://www.teresaudio.com/woods.html

   Perhaps they could tell you something about the origin.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
   Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   creekwood | Nov 09, 2004 12:04am | #2

   Thanks, forestgirl, I'll pass this along.

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   forestgirl | Nov 09, 2004 07:54pm | #3

   This is the kind of topic we need our ailing friend Jon Arno to help out with.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   wop | Nov 10, 2004 01:11am | #6

        Since you brought it up ,any latest news on how Jon is doing?

                                                                            Philip

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   forestgirl | Nov 10, 2004 03:18am | #7

   None that I know of.  I've just been checking in on the "Where's Jon" thread when there's a new post.  Have to confess, I'm a little worried.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   RTorgeson | Nov 09, 2004 08:04pm | #4

   creekwood......I bought some Monkeywood a few years back at Crosscut Hardwoods in south Seattle. Have made several pens from it and also a clock. Still have some. It is sort of reddish brown in color. I don't know where it comes from or if there is another name for it. Rod in Appleton, WA

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   Koreaman95 | Nov 09, 2004 09:19pm | #5

   Some of the monkey wood comes from Hawaii, my wife and I went there a few years ago and a local there showed us her monkey wood furniture and gave us a spatula made from monkey wood.  

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   GeoA | Nov 10, 2004 11:48pm | #8

   I believe that the wood from Hawaii is Monkeypod, which is somewhat more coarse grained than the photo of the Monkey wood in an earlier post.  Monkeypod is what I also thought of when this thread started.  Here is what Monkeypod looks like:

   http://www.hilozoo.com/plants/PT_monkeypod.htm

   http://trophy-house.com/Thi/Scripts/ThiMonkeypod.asp