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    I came across a picture of a wood labelled as Red Ebony on this site http://www.daystarhandworks.com/wood_alpha.php#r and was hoping someone could provide me with some more information on it. I've tried researching Red Ebony, but all I can find is that Red Ebony is another name for Cooktown Ironwood or that it is a species of Ebony found in New Guinea, however neither look right when compared with the picture of the Red Ebony I'm interested in.

    I emailed the store owner, and she told me that the seller she bought the wood from didn't know the Latin name, but said that it had been given to him by a farer in the Volta region of West Africa.

    So, with one picture and a possible place of origin, can anyone shed some light on what this particular timber might actually be?

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    Alex

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    Hi Alex

    As its from Africa and the pic is not very revealing one can't say much. Here is a bit.... If it was from Australia it would likely refer to Cooktown Ironwood but this species (a very hard & very dense tropical wood from our north) has a darker red colour when finsihed (darker than shown in link).

    Red ebony may refer to Red ivory (also known as pink ivory) a rae and expensive wood from Africa.

    Euge

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    Old thread but the Red Ebony shown is definitely not Cooktown Ironwood (Erythrophleum chlorostachys).

    Katherine Kowlaski is a very good turner but some of her wood ID is suspect. For example - Nara / Padauk (Padouk) / Amboyna (usually used for burl) / New Guinea Rosewood are all interchangeable common names for a variety of Petrocarpus species (30 +) that are pan tropical, they grow in Africa, Asia, New Guinea, Australia, etc. They can be honey brown through to deep purples/reds from light density to quite dense. The preffered common trade name seems to have more to do with colour than species.
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