There are 77 essences
Mahogany is a common name grouping several species of tropical trees. The two main strains are American mahogany and African mahogany.
Beam Tree is native to Europe. Marquetry and violin making are its main destinations in its use. Rose color and very fine grain.
Amaranth is a precious wood, also called purple wood, it is mainly used for marquetry and violin making. Its grain is fine.
Its origin is African. Beautiful veining pronounced several shades of yellow to brown. Its very fine grain allows a remarkable polishing
The color, generally uniform, varies from golden yellow to red paprika. More unusual, this gray variant.
Rare and luxurious! The star essence in wood working, marquetry, cutlery. Its veining is complex, its color varies from golden yellow to red paprika.
Rare and luxurious! The star essence in wood working, marquetry, cutlery. Its veining is complex, its color varies from golden yellow to red paprika, our sample.
The tree, small diameter, offers a remarkable wood for crafts related to wood working, cutlery ... Very dense and fine grain, it is an essence of choice for who knows how to work.
A delicate beige-pink color, sometimes finely veined with brown-red threads. If its use is very wide, note its excellent qualities for the manufacture of guitars like the Fender Stratocaster.
Also called Rosewood of Mexico, his veins are well nuanced. Its fine and homogeneous grain has seduced the manufacturers of luxury pool cues but not them!
So named for its pink color, it is a variety of Dalbergia like many other Rosewood. Very used in marquetry and for musical instruments, its grain is fine, fragrant and colors ranging from straw yellow to coppery red.
It takes its name from its appearance reminiscent of snakeskin. Used mainly in cabinetry, its dense and nerve fiber does not facilitate the work of those who implement it. Light beige to dark brown with well marked veining.
Mottled birch comes from Finland or Norway. Its warm beige color background is embellished with brown veins whose cause would be the freezing of these cold regions (between bark). Its implementation does not pose a problem.
Iridescent wood, changing effects according to the orientations of the object. More commonly pink to red-brown, this silver and marbled variant is exceptional. Wood vigorous and resistant to its implementation.
If the color of this Bubinga is consistent with its known pinkish-red appearance, the ripple of its fibers is much more unusual.
Variety of bubinga in the dark red color beautifully figured with a tangle of wavy fibers.
This is the camphor tree. In addition to its medicinal virtues, it is with its wood that we are interested here, more particularly with its burl, this entanglement of fibers so much sought after in the crafts. Pinkinsh-brown wood, with very fine grain, homogenous.
Uniform essence both in color and grain. Its cloth appearance is supported by the fine and delicate perfectly straight grooves of its grain. In this variant, the wood essence is heated to brown it.
The beige background is dotted with small red-brown knots. Essence of wood with strong character during its machining, a characteristic that we find in its symbolism, Strength and Power.
The Marsh Oak used in marquetry is a very old oak preserved in peat bogs for several centuries, even a few millennia. Its color varies from light gray to deep black. Its fiber is pronounced.
If several techniques are used to color a wood, the most natural remains the heat treatment (220 °). Free of all chemicals, this solution offers a warm amber color. Some workshop tips and more sublimate the work.
From the family of Dalbergia, it is still a Rosewood. From orange to reddish brown, he is appreciated in violin making (Basses, clarinets, oboes) and for making decorative objects. Cocobolo is exploited after a century of maturity. Today, a very small amount of this species is available on the market.
Its Latin name "horned" comes from its great hardness, like the horn. Precious, dense and flexible, it finds multiple destinations in the crafts of wood, weapons or mechanical parts. For the anecdote, the Greeks had chosen for the manufacture of the Trojan.
Rare et somptueuse essence à forts contrastes pour des motifs d'une grande richesse allant du jaune paille au noir intense.
One of the hardest species known to date. Nuanced from black to copper-brown, her veins bring a lot of elegance and distinction in her multiple artistic applications.
The black Ebony, it is the reference, the most known, Ebènier, very dense. Used since antiquity by the Egyptians for the realization of sacred or precious objects. Today, its anthracite gray to black color is very appreciated in violin making and cutlery.