Botanical name: (Swartzia fistuloides)
A very hard wood with a specific gravity of .85 Beautiful salmon color with cream sapwood. Tap tone is very similar to Honduran Rosewood. A real sleeper that can make for a wonderful guitar.
Also known as African Tulip, this beautiful African hardwood contains beautiful orange, red, pink & golden colors. It is dense and, has bright tap tone which is similar to Rosewoods, glues well, and takes a high natural polish. (Tonewood Data Source)
There are wormholes in the sapwood, very limited quantities!
