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It's difficult if not impossible to find nice pattern grade south American or "Honduran" now. The restrictions have made it difficult to get and expensive..While the same species grows all over south america and parts of mexico..honduras has the best soil environment and oldest growth. African mahogany, kaya, and what people call sapele are not nearly the same wood but a close substitute for it. I've milled probably 10s of thousands of bf of Honduran pattern. Lots of bars and entry ways in south boston.Looks like each of my five Sunfish's. One of my tillers is mahogany.
Freshly varnished, they have a deep and gorgeous luster. Back in the 1950s, while building a wooden boat, my Dad and I found that loggers had begun to run out of mahogany.
A Miami acquaintance retired as a millionaire after developing a chainsaw with a 14-foot reach. So many "wild" trees had been deforested from Haiti's slopes, a longer saw blade was needed to reach the remainder!
Today's mahogany is a cultivated "crop".
Not factory, this particular tiller was crafted along "wishbone" lines, which suggests the craftsman knew of mahogany's limitations.. Tillers I don't believe we're originally made from mahogany. It doesn't have the strength. Every one I've seen looks to be ash. But I'm sure it varied through the years.