This piece has great color contrast! Fresh cut and wax sealed (August 14, 2018).

This piece has great color contrast! Fresh cut and wax sealed (August 14, 2018).

This piece has great color contrast with yellowish spalted spawood! Fresh cut and wax sealed (August 14, 2018).

This Koa wood slab has checks and splits. This wood slab would be great for a coffee table!

This piece has a few checks and splits. This wood slab would be great for a coffee table!

This piece has one square edge and one live edge. There are some checks and cracks present. A 3" end check is present on the white face. This would be a great artistic piece. It is kiln dried and ready to use.

Known as Kelobra, parota, Guanacaste, and rain tree. Heavy when freshly cut, it quickly dries and retains little of its original wet weight. A hardwood, it is used for cabinets and furniture where it is indigenous. Called a Koa substitute in the states, it is similar in appearance and easier to work. Stable in service. Trees of 24-48" diameter are the average with some shade trees much larger in diameter. Central America. This slab is kiln dried and surfaced on two sides One face has large bark incursion approximately 2 ft x 1 ft wide. Surface checks on live edge. Some surface checks in sapwood. End splits on quarter sawn, either end. 5" end split on one end, 3" on other. Machine marks on live edge in one place. Nice ribbon figure! Can be used for virtually anything, but ideal for mantel. Considerable instrument grade wood in this piece if able to work around defects. Can also be cut into a bookmatched coffee table for additional cutting fee. This slab would be great for a mantel piece!

The sapwood has numerous pin holes. This is kiln dried and ready to use. The bottom face has crotch figure with a large incursion. There is a little live edge on the corner at the narrow end. This would make an interesting side table, a desk, a small bar top, possibly a cool headboard about 92" if end matched.