Ovangkol & Bubinga

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Ovangkol is an attractive hardwood indigenous to tropical West Africa. Usually, its coloration runs from yellow-brown to a mottled olive-brown to dark brown, and it features stripes that run from gray to almost black. When it has significant purple coloration, however, ovangkol's variegation and grain pattern closely resemble East Indian rosewood. It also shares some tonal characteristics with rosewood, but boasts the livelier "sparkle" found in such medium-density hardwoods as mahogany, walnut, and koa.

Bubinga = African Rosewood ครับ
The remaining rosewood alternatives are relatively inexpensive and easy to come by. From Africa there's bubinga, which has a nice reddish-mauve brown color and often sports an interesting 'bees-wing' figure that gives a nice three-dimensional shimmer to wood under finish. Also from Africa is padauk. A brilliant purple-red wood, it oxidizes to dark brown over time.