HOBBIT eBay veneer lot samples

the point of this page is to give you a quick idea of the general appearance of each of the veneers I currently have for sale on eBay. These pics are representative and you should check the pics with each specific auction for the particular lot of veneer in that auction, but these pics will give you some idea of the color and grain so that you can best locate what might be useful to you for a specific project.

Many of the pics here show up larger if you click on them and sometimes those enlargements have further enlargements. The shape of the cursor when you put it over a pic will tell you whether or not there's an enlargement of the pic you're looking at.

the enlargements show up in a separate browser window so that you can compare veneers by opening multiple windows showing different species.

Not every veneer is available every week and I do sometimes put up stuff for auction that doesn't make it to this page.

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afrormosia, quartersawn with a very light figure

flat cut figured anigre --- strong color and noticible grain; much richer color than the other anigre varieties I have

quartersawn anigre --- moderately bland light tan color, noticible grain

fiddleback anigre --- uniform light tan with a slight yellow tint and moderately strong, and uniform, curl all the way across the sheets. A true fiddleback but to my mind too bland to actually be used on the back of a fiddle


Japanese ash (sen)

ash, sen, type 1 --- slick and shiny, VERY attractive (this was the first batch of sen I ever bought and I though all sen was like this, but since then I've bought several batches but have never seen another like this with the strong silvery-white background)

ash, sen, type 2 --- more like American ash, nice but not like type 1

ash, 2-tone (heartwood and sapwood clearly delineated)

ash, curly --- curl doesn't always go across the whole sheet, but the sheets are very attractive

avodire --- fairly bland yellowish tan

rift cut / flat cut European beech

quartersawn beech with ray flakes

bloodwood --- ah, the name pretty much says it all


bubinga --- at times I offer various varieties of this species. Shown here are some mixed batches that contain pretty much everything I ever offer, although the kevazinga here is rather bland.

bubinga mix part 1 --- In the upper left, flat cut mottled. In the upper right, 2 set of 2 sheets each of flat cut with such high figure that some vendors would sell it as kevazinga, although it is not. In the lower middle, some very nice flat cut mottled that does not show up well in this image. In the lower right rift cut and quartersawn and in the lower left a piece of rift cut.

bubinga mix part 2 --- In the upper left, mottled, in the upper right rotary cut (aka kevazinga) and in the lower middle, a batch that was sold to me as quartersawn but which seems to me to be rift or flat cut.

butternut --- warm honey color but sometimes with the small darker blotches you see on the right-side sheets


cerejeira --- I find it hard to get the color right on this one, but this is pretty close (although just a shade too green)


chen --- very solid yellow color with a grain like ribbon stripe mahogany and ribbon stripe sapele


cherry --- a mixture showing color variations; you get honey-brown, salmon pink, light red, salmon brown, dark brown, and other plus creamy sapwood

quartersawn cherry

flat cut cherry

cherry, flaky --- not all flaky cherry has quite as pronounced flakes as this.

cherry, mottled --- not all mottled cherry has the tiny ray flakes that this piece has nor is mottled necessarily quartersawn, as this piece is.

European cherry --- very attractive yellow/gold brown with creamy sapwood --- actually looks better than this pic makes it out to be.


Douglas fir --- vibrant color, strong grain


flat cut etimoe


hickory mix --- shows flat and quartersawn, plus sapwood. This is a fairly grainy wood.


iroko --- bland light brown with tan sapwood


izambe --- slightly more yellow and slightly richer than how it appears here


jatoba --- reddish brown with noticible grain


koto --- fairly uniform, very light yellowish tan


lacewood with large flakes


fiddleback white limba --- nice uniform tannish-yellow color with a fairly strong fiddleback figure that tends to be consistent across a sheet


makore mix showing razor mottle in upper left, curly in upper right, mottled in lower right and lower left, and quartersawn in the middle. The area of the picture is about 2'x3'

figured western maple mix

hard maple mix

mappa burl --- frequently more white than these pieces and with some tendancy to have small holes

red oak

white oak

padauk --- beautiful brilliant red, or sometimes slightly darker (both colors shown here), and browns with age without UV protection


purpleheart --- the name says it all, although you have to be careful as sometimes this veneer is a dusty brownish purple instead of the bright purple. The ugly stuff, if exposed to sunlight, will turn bright purple.


sapele --- this particular batch is flat cut with a tiny amount of bubble figure


curly Brazilian satinwood --- really attractive stuff; uniform strong yellow color and strong curl all the way across each sheet

walnut mix (American, black) --- some of the edges of these flat cut pieces show exactly what quartersawn looks like. Some of these pieces show sapwood edges. The grain variety in walnut is considerable

walnut, European figured --- quartersawn and with a light curl. Not noticibly different from American black.

walnut, claro burl mix --- the light piece in the left middle is pure sapwood and some of the other pieces show sapwood.


yew: this veneer is rarely fault-free; it often has cracks and knots, but the good news is that the color is usually a quite beautiful rich honey color

select yew

a yew mix