I am using mahogany for the first time. Freshly sanded it has the color of
ash, but a lovely pearlescence. It is very fine grained and light weight.

Is this likely to be mahogany (which I always thought was red/purple) or
something else?

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:30:50 GMT, john wrote:
I am using mahogany for the first time. Freshly sanded it has the color of
ash, but a lovely pearlescence. It is very fine grained and light weight.

Is this likely to be mahogany (which I always thought was red/purple) or
something else?

Lots of woods are called "mahogany". Where did you get this from, and
did they say what kind it was or give a country of origin?

Dave Hinz

If it feel real light and airy, look up luan.



john wrote:
I am using mahogany for the first time. Freshly sanded it has the color of
ash, but a lovely pearlescence. It is very fine grained and light weight.

Is this likely to be mahogany (which I always thought was red/purple) or
something else?

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:30:50 GMT, "john" wrote:

I am using mahogany for the first time. Freshly sanded it has the color of
ash, but a lovely pearlescence. It is very fine grained and light weight.

Sounds like Philippine variety. It's cheap and often used for hollow
core door skins.

Real mahogany will not look anything like ash.

Barry

In article , "john" wrote:
I am using mahogany for the first time. Freshly sanded it has the color of
ash, but a lovely pearlescence. It is very fine grained and light weight.

Is this likely to be mahogany (which I always thought was red/purple) or
something else?

Mahogany is emphatically *not* red or purple. Much furniture made from
mahogany has unfortunately been stained to a deep red that approaches purple,
and that's what you get when you buy a stain labelled "mahogany", but that
shade bears little or no relationship to the actual color of the wood.

African mahogany is about the color of an Irish setter; Honduras mahogany is
similar, but not quite so red, more like a golden retriever.

Anything the color of ash is unlikely to be mahogany.

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"john" writes:

I am using mahogany for the first time. Freshly sanded it has the color
of
ash, but a lovely pearlescence. It is very fine grained and light weight.

Is this likely to be mahogany (which I always thought was red/purple) or
something else?

Something else.

My guess is MUCH lower cost than Honduran Mahogany.

Lew

Put a drop of water or thinner on it and you will get a good idea of what
color it will change to if you finish it. Typically Mahogany is a redish
medium brown color before finishing.


"john" wrote in message
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I am using mahogany for the first time. Freshly sanded it has the color of
ash, but a lovely pearlescence. It is very fine grained and light weight.

Is this likely to be mahogany (which I always thought was red/purple) or
something else?

"African mahogany?" Khaya spp. It's light, and favors rowed figure.

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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"john" writes:

I am using mahogany for the first time. Freshly sanded it has the color
of
ash, but a lovely pearlescence. It is very fine grained and light
weight.

Is this likely to be mahogany (which I always thought was red/purple) or
something else?

Something else.

My guess is MUCH lower cost than Honduran Mahogany.

Lew

In article , john wrote:
I am using mahogany for the first time. Freshly sanded it has the color of
ash, but a lovely pearlescence. It is very fine grained and light weight.

Is this likely to be mahogany (which I always thought was red/purple) or
something else?

"Mahogany" covers a multitude of sins.

If it is 'light weight', what you _probably_ have is 'african mahogany'.
which is a much more 'golden brown' than the 'reddish brown' of honduran
mahogany.

Mahogany is usually mahogany colored.

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"George" george@least wrote in :

"African mahogany?" Khaya spp. It's light, and favors rowed figure.


Anigre?

Ba r r y wrote:

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:30:50 GMT, "john" wrote:

I am using mahogany for finishes time. Freshly sanded it has the color
of
ash, but a lovely pearlescence. It is very fine grained and light weight.

Sounds like Philippine variety. It's cheap and often used for hollow
core door skins.

Real mahogany will not look anything like ash.

Barry

Philippine Mahogany dosn't have a fine grain it's almost like Oak, and is
the color of mocha , it's not that bad to work, if your carful and it
finishes great.

I took it to the local exotic lumberyard. The owner tried to find out what
I thought it was and where I found it, but when I refused to lead him he
said he would call it "mahogany". But he defined mahogany as any of a dozen
tropical woods that look pretty much the same.

Judging by what people here have said, I am guessing it is probably African
mahogany.

Hey, it is a nice looking wood and I got it really cheap, so maybe it
doesn't matter what it really is.

"john" wrote in message

Hey, it is a nice looking wood and I got it really cheap, so maybe it
doesn't matter what it really is.

A FWIW, when you go to finish it. Keep in mind that potassium dichromate is
often used to give the different flavors of "mahogany" that _even_ reddish
brown color ... while toxic, it really does a nice job.

You can probably Google for more info.

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