Bryan Tyler Nelson		AFRICAN BLACKWOOD
	African Blackwood: (Dalberia melanoxylon) has an extensive range on the African continent. It can be found throughout East and Central Africa, in the savanna regions of the Sudan southward to Mozambique, then westward to Angola and northward to Nigeria and Senegal. Countries of origin include Angola, Central African Republic, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.      The heartwood is very dark, ranging in color from a dark purple, to bluish black to dark brown, all of which colors convert to black with age. Black streaks are common and sometimes it is charcoal gray with black grain. The thin sapwood is yellowish to white. Blackwood is a  fantastic turnery wood used for clarinets and is one of the densest woods. Takes a very fine polish. Very hard & heavy, weighing up to 79 pounds per cubic foot. Extremely expensive. I find it really hard to photograph this wood so please excuses  the poor pictures. The first five pictures are of Bird's Eye Blackwood, very rare.
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