[phinds]

In terms of the NUMBER of samples, this is not the biggest lot by far that I've gotten loaned to me by David Clark in Australia, but in terms of the woods represented it's really terrific. There are hardly any American domestics and the lot is chock-a-block with ebonies, rosewoods, and other relatively rare exotics.

Oh, crap ... wait a minute. This mean ANOTHER 78 samples that I have to process.

There goes my summer --- damn that David Clark ! :smile:

Check out all those rosewoods and ebonies in the upper left

 

[phinds]

Wow, very impressive collection. I did not appreciate so many ebony or rosewood species. :thumbsup:

Yeah, it distresses me to see people call a wood "rosewood" as thought that were a meaningful term, when there are a couple of dozen distinct rosewoods that are available to the American craftspeople.

Here are just a few of them:

http://hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/_discussion_rosewoods.htm