I found a hardwood place up here and surprisingly they had some really nice exotics for Alaska that were reasonably priced. After looking through a pile for some nice quartered wood I couldn't resist these boards. There is a decent amount of QS material where I will join them up. I just hope it doesn't cut once I get it milled.
I wanted to mill it today because my shop shipment was delivered this afternoon. However the movers broke dang near everything including my bandsaw, drum sander and table saw. SO now I gotta wait for my claim to process. I still feel better looking at this stuff. Smells wonderful. I just hope I don't run into any problems with it cupping.
Pao Ferro (let's use the proper name rather than Bolivian "rosewood", it is not a rosewood) is reputed to be toxic, maybe even worse than cocobolo. Watch the dust when working it.
) pau ferro is more commonly the name for Caesalpinia ferrea and M. scheroxylon is known there as caviuna or "jacaranda pardo"; it seems the confusion never ends) and was quite afraid, but it went rather smoothly - but i haven´t used it yet and am a bit afraid of sanding it...bad rep for this wood.