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TAMBOOTIE

Spirostachys africana
Spirostachys africana of the family Chenopodiaceae. Native to Africa.

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 tambooti / Spirosstachys africana --- HUGE enlargements are present. This sample was loaned to me by David Clark 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

web pics:

end grain of a small log / branch


planks


misc pieces labeled as tambootie / Spirostachys africana, all from the same vendor


planks listed as tambootie / African sandlewood


plank with a color that I find highly unlikely


figured planks


scales, all from the same vendor


scales


scales listed as stabilized


scales, all from the same vendor


figured scales


misc forms of turning stock including bowl blanks


turning stock listed as tambootie / Spriostachys africana, all from the same vendor and with a color that I think has too much orange. These may not even BE Spriostachys africana (they don't look like any other pics on this page)


turning stock listed as tambootie / Spirostachys africana


turning stock listed as tambootie / Spirostachys africanus (which should be S. africana)


scales listed as tambootie / Spirostachys africana


pen blanks


pen blanks listed as tambootie / Spirostachys africana


bookmatched scales --- given the richness of the color, I'd guess these have been waxed or oiled


pen blanks that have been oiled and waxed --- this is from a vendor whos pictures tend to make wood look purple whether it is or not, so the purple color is highly suspect.


turning stock


turning stock listed as tambootie / Spirostachys africana


bowl blank listed as tambootie / Spirostachys africana

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turning stock from the BogusColorVendor with the typical exaggeration of colors

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three views of the same bowl; I suspect that the middle pic has the correct color and the purple tint in the other two pics is not correct.


bowl and natural edge bowl (actually, this is NOT a "normal" natural edge bowl, this is just a cyclinder hollowed out of a trunk or limb --- that's not a bad thing in any way, it's just not what is normally meant by "natural edge bowl".