"Toller" wrote in message
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[...].
grain means nothing to her; she just want it about as dark
as the mahogany pieces.There doesn't seem to be any point to spending
money on more mahogany if she can't tell the difference. [...]

Aren't there far eastern species which resemble mahog but aren't?
Otherwise you may as well paint it, faux bois - used to be very fashionable.

Tim w