The heartwood is a rich, dark brown to purplish-brown. There are clusters of burls with the grain texture contrasty in color. There often is a fiddleback fighure.

The heartwood of this burl is light tan to biscuit color. It has a medium to mostly tight jewel box burl, evenly inter-mixed with irregular grain figure. Because of its lightness in color, it takes a variety of stains well.

The English Brown Oak Burl is light golded-brown to a rich deep brown. This brown results from a fungus attack in the growing tree, causing the heartwood to turn a rich, deep brown. It is a beautiful medium to tight jewel box burl pattern, with a golden b

The Carpathian Elm Burl is brick-red to light tan in color. It is a beautiful fine to medium jewel box burl. The medium burl will have a swirly grain inter-mixed with the burl patterns.

The White Ash Burl is creamy white to tan with several areas of brown knots or burrs. It is beautiflly and richly marked with burls, swirls, and a fiddleback figure. This burl is selected for white color and portions of burl and swirl.

The Olive Ash Burl is cream-white to tan, with a combination of light white swirls of fiddleback figure. The combination of cream and brown patterns when book and butt match can create beautiful symmetrical matches.

Bird¹s-eye Maple is creamy white to reddish brown heartwood. Its original white color is preferred but must be dried carefully. The famous bird¹s-eye figure can be scattered over the entire tree, or in irregular stripes and patches. A heavy eye pattern e

The heartwood unsteamed is very white to pale pink-tan. It is common to steam this wood which turns it to a reddish-brown tone. Beech has a straight grain and fine, even texture.

The color of Honduras mahogany varies from light reddish or yellowish-brown to rich, dark red to yellowish-tan. There are a variety of figures, usually with a straighter grain.

Figured Walnut is ligh gray-brown to dark purplish-brown. The figure types vary in each log, from highly fiddleback to slight or mottle figuring. It can refer to wild, wavy grain structure with or without figure.

American Black Walnut is a light gray-brown to dark purpish-brown. It can be plain or highly figured. The specie produces a greater variety of figure types than any other. Longwood veneer that is flat cut, quartered, half-round has characteristics that i

Rift White Oak ranges in color from light brown to biscuit to light gray. When cut fo veneer, it is cut on a machine that variesthe knife angle to cut with long rays to give a very straight grain effect. There is no flake, and some swing in the grain occ

Domestic White Oak is light brown to biscuit-colored with pinkish tint. Its rays are more pronounced and longer than in Red Oak. The grain is straight and has pores that are numerous and angular which gives it a flaky effect.

Red Oak has a slightly redder tinge than white oak, and is more uniform in color. The flake figure is less prominent than in white oak. Red Oak has a somewhat coarser grain with large pores.

English Brown Oak is light tan to deep brown. A fungus attack in the growing tree caused the heartwood to turn a rich brown. There are some sap-type streaks where the fungus failed to spread, causing a contrasty visual effect. The grain figure can be ver

The English Oak Cluster ranges in color from light brown to shades of white with a cream colored background. It is characterized by varying patterns of knots and burl clusters spread randomly throughout the length of the leaf.

Maple¹s color varies, from snow white to cream-white. There is some yellow during the off season. Its natural characteristics include sugar specks and mineral streaks. Is is sometimes found highly figured with curly, fiddleback, blistered, quilted, or

The color of cherry varies widely, from a light pinkish to reddish-brown. Cherry has a close grain with natural character marks such as pitch pockets and gum pockets. The figure is varying from plain to highly mottled.

White Ash has a somewhat lustrous surface. The heartwood is cream to very light brown, while the sapwood is wide and lighter colored. The grain is straight and moderatly open. White ash is available in all cuts of veneer: flat cut, quarters, and half r

European Walnut is usually gray-brown with infiltrations of darker coloring irregularly distributed as streaks of smoky brown. There is often a wavy grain. This figured wood provides a well defined core. When flat cut as veneer it has an unusually large n

Teak is golden colored to dark brown and is characterized by mineral streaks that provide a contrasty grain-structure much like American Walnut cathedrals. Teak has a strong, tough, oily texture. All golden teak with no mineral streaking is limited in ava

Satinwood is pale gold rippled grain with some straight striping. Some is plain with no figure, and often is found with "bee¹s wing" figure. Some Satinwood veneer is flat cut, but is mostly quartered with figuring mottled.

The heartwood of Santos Rosewood is a lustrous chocolate-brown to purple to black. Its sapwood is cream colored and often looks like Brazilian Rosewood but with more purples. It has a variegated stripe to marble-like figure.

East Indian Rosewood is dark purple to ebony with streaks of red or yellow. Its grain is narrow, producing a ribbon grain figure.

Brazilian Rosewood has various shades of dark brown, chocolate, to violet on a reddish background. It has conspicuous streaks of dark brown or black pigment lines.