I’m trying to recreate the look of the beaded board in this photo. http://www.bohlarchitects.com/centerv_/kit.htm The captions say it is mahogany. I assume African mahogany, but would a load of African mahogany contain the variety of colors seen in this photo. I’m not very familiar with the wood.
Would love to hear your ideas.
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Sapelle (African mahogany) I've seen doesn't show that much variation. I'd email the company and ask for more specific identification,
These days, the word mahogany is used rather loosely. It may be used for a wide variety of dark tropical hardwoods. Originally, it refered to Swietenia mahogoni, Cuban or West Indian mahogany. It expanded to include Swietenia macrophylla, same family but from the Phillipines or Central America. These are being grown in various countries now where they were not native species. It may be possible that Swietenia is available from Indonesia or a hybrid. Lots of unknowns about lumber from around the world Other species like khaya, luan, meranti, sapele, toona, ipe, and probably several more may be called mahogany. Colors can be different from tree to tree. I did a deck in meranti which has variations in color similar to your picture. It was sold to me as blue star meranti. Someone said blue star was a mill but I don't know that for sure. It was supposed to be a better quality. It's possible that other meranti may vary more. Lumber generally isn't sold by the taxidermical name, regardless of what the distributer calls it, it's hard to know for sure.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm looking at using cedar which has the advantage of being in stock so I can choose my boards. Otherwise I'll be stuck with whatever I end up ordering.
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