afrormosia

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NOTE: there is rarely any "standard" or "typical" look for a wood so take what's in this table with a grain of salt
the REST of the pictures on this page will give you a better overall feel for this wood

afrormosia / Pericopsis spp. (previously Afrormosia spp.)

5" x 5" flat cut, 5" x 5" quartersawn, 1" wide end grain, and a 1/4" x 1/4" end grain closeup.

Diffuse porous with moderately sparse, medium sized pores, randomly distributed with vasicentric parenchyma and considerable confulent parenchyma. Rays are visible at 10X but never with the naked eye. Growth boundaries are sometimes vague but always discernible.

my samples:
NOTE: these pics were all taken in very bright incandescent lighting ("soft white" at 2700K)
colors will vary under other lighting conditions

both sides of a sample plank of quartersawn afrormosia / Afrormosia elata --- HUGE enlargements are present. This sample was loaned to me by David Clark whom I thank for this and other contributions to the site. Note that Afrormosia elata is a synonym for Pericopsis elata.

end grain and end grain closeup of the piece directly above

END GRAIN UPDATE from directly above

both sides of a sample plank of golden afrormosia / Pericopsis elata --- HUGE enlargements are present. The end grain characteristics on this are different enough from the other samples on this page that I was unsure of the identification but I found numerous Pericopsis elata end grain samples on the NCSU site and they show a really large range of pore density and this piece is well within that range so I'm good with the ID.

end grain and end grain closeup of the piece directly above

END GRAIN UPDATE from directly above

both sides of a sample plank of afrormosia / Pericopsis angolensis --- HUGE enlargements are present. This sample was loaned to me by Mark Peet whom I thank for this and other contributions to the site.

end grain and end grain closeup of the piece directly above

END GRAIN UPDATE from directly above

both sides of a stick of afrormosia, cut from another larger piece from somewhere on this page, shown because I needed to get another end grain update for this wood --- HUGE enlargements are present.

end grain and end grain closeup of the piece directly above

END GRAIN UPDATE from directly above and also a similar fine sanded end grain from the other end of the piece

both sides of a plank. HUGE enlargements are present

end grain and end grain closeup of the piece directly above

both sides and end grain of a large plank --- color is accurate --- this piece is rough and I did not take an end grain closeup shot because I'll do that on a smaller piece after I've fine sanded it. OK, now I've done that and the pics are directly below

two small planks cut from the large one. The one on top is rough sanded and the one on the bottom is fine sanded, and you can certainly see the difference in color and grain clarity.

end grain of the two pieces directly above

end grain closeup of the fine-sanded piece from the two directly above. I put fine sanded in quotes because up close like this you can seen that my fine sanding wasn't all that fine.

face grain closeup and extreme closeup from the fine sanded plank

another plank (and end grain shot) cut from the large one at the top of the page

end grain closeup of the piece directly above, and this time I got the fine sanding right !

plank and end grain

end grain closeup of the piece directly above

both sides of a plank and end grain for each

a smaller piece cut from the same plank as above

plank and end grain --- this piece was purchased from a vendor who generally supplies low quality wood

end grain closeup and END GRAIN UPDATE of the piece directly above

two more pieces from the same plank

the smaller of the two pieces directly above, moistened with water to show the substantial color change that a finishing agent will cause in this wood.

plank and end grain

end grain closeup and END GRAIN UPDATE of the piece directly above

quartersawn figured veneer --- the figure is weak, but does show up more than you can see in these pics. The actual wood has a slight yellow tint not captured in these pics. Compare my pics to the one posted by the vendor (directly below) --- my pics are not quite yellow enough and hers are definitely too yellow

this is the pics posted on ebay by the vendor who sold me the quartersawn figured veneer directly above.

flat cut veneer sheet and closeup

afrormosia veneer --- HUGE enlargements are present. This part of a collection which is discussed here: COLLECTION D

web pics:

quartersawn plank

planks listed as quartersaw African afrormosia / Pericopsis elata

planks

plank with an unlikely purple color

both sides of a plank and a closeup

quartersawn?

a long board

a long board and just above it a closeup of one portion

planks specifically listed as Pericopsis elata

ribbon striped veneer listed as asamela, which implies that it is Pericopsis elata

veneer

veneer, all from the same vendor, who actually had it listed as "afromosia" [missing "r"], which is such a common mistake that some lists will show that as a valid spelling.