Primavera is a relatively inexpensive exotic wood that is great to work with and has an appearance which earned it the nickname “white mahogany.” Primavera workability is exceptional. It works easily with hand tools, holds nails and screws well, and glues without difficulty. Primavera can be stained and polished to a very good finish.
-bowl done by Jerry Brownrigg
The heartwood is cream colored, sometimes yellow white to light brown, and often difficult to distinguish from the sapwood. Primavera’s grain is straight to interlocked and wavy. Quartered surfaces often offer a striped figure.
In certain figured pieces of primavera it has the same amber color like Ceylon satinwood with the bee’s wing figure. It isn’t overpowering, pleasant to look at it, and reflects light well. The older it gets, the patina comes off of it and it takes on a deeper amber apperance.
***In areas where primavera grows, natives have long believed the trees should be cut based on the lunar cycle. It is said that sap levels rise to their highest level with a full moon, and fall to lowest levels when there is a new moon
(Woodshop News, Nov. 2001)
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1.5" x 1.5" x 12" $3.00 each 2" x 2" x 12" $4.50 each
1.5" x 1.5" x 19" $4.50 each 2" x 2" x 24" $7.70 each
1.5" x 1.5" x 30" $5.70 each 2" x 2" x 36" $10.00 each
1.5" x 1.5" x 36" $6.60 each 2" x 2" x 48" $14.50 each
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