Making a hope/heirloom/blanket chest for my only niece for her upcoming wedding. Limited choices that I’ve found in my neck of the woods, so wound up using something that was sold to me as an African Hardwood named “Utile”.
Works nice, seems reasonable hard and Tung oil on a sample brings out the grain nicely.
Anyone know more about this wood?
Let’s not confuse the issue with facts!
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post a pic ..
From the Woodweb source, I quote just one of the replies posted to a question put there, much like yours here:
"African mahogany is Khaya ivorensis. Utile is Entandrophragma utile. In my experience the only similarity is the country of origin. I wouldn't use khaya for exterior unless it was specified, but I use utile (we started calling it "utility" because we use it so much) for most of my exterior doors.
I disagree with the poster that says it moves when you cut it. My supplier dries 95% of his stock himself and I have found his utile to be very nice to work with. Looks good too.
80-90% of the time I could use utile instead of SA mahogany and no one would know the difference."
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Thank you very much. Will post a pic soon if I remember. Exterior use is not in question for this project, but good to know. Nice to work with.Let's not confuse the issue with facts!