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Default does cocobolo change color?

"Leon" wrote in
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"jeremy" wrote in message
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Cocobolo is a rosewood, but if you got 150 lb. for $50 I have to
wonder if what you have is really Dalbergia retusa. A quick test is
to take a piece and throw it in water, if it sinks it may be
cocobolo.


The key word is it May sink. Several woods will sink.



Natalie Wood for example.