Materials · the fourteen species
The materials.
Fourteen species, one spectrum — pale to black, no stain. The tone is the wood itself, and the making prices the same across all fourteen, so the board alone sets the difference. Tap any species for its full page, or send it straight to the configurator.
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Help me choose.
Three questions pick the species nine times out of ten: what tone does the room want, what will the piece survive, and does it need to live with wood you already own?
1 · BY TONE
Want the room light? Soft Maple and Hard Maple are the pale end; Movingui adds a true gold. The middle belongs to the oaks — White Oak is the anchor most rooms reach for. Warmth comes from Sipo, Sapele, and Mahogany; depth from Walnut; and the dark end runs through Wenge to true-black Ebony.
2 · BY WHAT IT SURVIVES
Daily service — restaurant tops, working kitchens — favors the hard end of the Janka column: Hard Maple, White Oak, Sapele, Wenge. A true chopping surface is Hard Maple in end grain. And anything living outside starts with Teak or Iroko — the two boards on the spectrum built for weather.
WHY THERE’S NO STAIN MENU
We believe the most beautiful color a board can wear is its own — so instead of one wood in many costumes, we carry fourteen woods, each in its natural color, sealed in a clear coating that deepens the grain instead of covering it. The one honest exception is color-matching wood you already have: when a project must sit beside existing stained millwork, the shop takes that on as a custom request, matched to your sample.
Soft Maple01- TONE
- 01 — THE PALE END
- GRAIN
- QUIET, EVEN · WARM CREAM
- HARDNESS
- 950 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN
Hard Maple02- TONE
- 02 — PALE
- GRAIN
- CLOSED, FINE · NEARLY WHITE
- HARDNESS
- 1450 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN
Movingui03- TONE
- 03 — GOLDEN
- GRAIN
- SATIN RIBBON FIGURE · GOLDEN YELLOW
- HARDNESS
- 1020 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN
Red Oak04- TONE
- 04 — WARM LIGHT
- GRAIN
- OPEN, BOLD CATHEDRAL
- HARDNESS
- 1290 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN
White Oak05- TONE
- 05 — THE ANCHOR OF THE SPECTRUM
- GRAIN
- TIGHT, EVEN · RAY FLECK QTR
- HARDNESS
- 1360 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN · RIFT · QTR
European Oak06- TONE
- 06 — HONEY
- GRAIN
- GENTLE FIGURE · FINE RAYS
- HARDNESS
- 1120 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN
Teak07- TONE
- 07 — GOLDEN BROWN
- GRAIN
- STRAIGHT, OILY · GOLDEN BROWNOUTDOOR ✓
- HARDNESS
- 1070 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN
Iroko08- TONE
- 08 — DEEPENING GOLD
- GRAIN
- INTERLOCKED · GOLD DEEPENING TO BROWNOUTDOOR ✓
- HARDNESS
- 1260 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN
Sipo09- TONE
- 09 — EVEN RED-BROWN
- GRAIN
- MILD, UNIFORM · CALM
- HARDNESS
- 1180 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN
Sapele10- TONE
- 10 — RED-BROWN
- GRAIN
- RIBBON-STRIPE FIGURE
- HARDNESS
- 1410 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN
Genuine Mahogany11- TONE
- 11 — DEEP RED-BROWN
- GRAIN
- FINE, STRAIGHT · CHATOYANT
- HARDNESS
- 900 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN
Walnut12- TONE
- 12 — CHOCOLATE
- GRAIN
- OPEN, FLOWING FIGURE
- HARDNESS
- 1010 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN · RIFT · QTR
Wenge13- TONE
- 13 — NEAR BLACK
- GRAIN
- COARSE, DEAD-STRAIGHT · TAN VEIN
- HARDNESS
- 1930 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN
Ebony14- TONE
- 14 — THE BLACK END
- GRAIN
- DENSE, GLASSY · TRUE BLACK
- HARDNESS
- 3080 LBF
- MATERIAL
- $$$$
- CUTS
- PLAIN
MATERIAL — RELATIVE BOARD COST FROM THE LIVE RATE CARD, $ LOWEST TO $$$$ HIGHEST · THE MAKING PRICES THE SAME ACROSS ALL FOURTEEN
How to choose
01MATCH THE ROOM — start where the room starts. Oak floors and millwork usually mean White Oak — the anchor of the spectrum; the maples keep a space light; Walnut and Wenge carry the dark end without a drop of stain.
02MATCH THE WORK — for tops in daily service, density earns its keep: Wenge, Hard Maple, Sapele, and White Oak lead the Janka column. Genuine Mahogany and Walnut are gentler boards, happiest where they are admired more than abused.
03MATCH THE BUDGET — species moves the material line only; the making prices the same across all fourteen. The band column tracks the live rate card, so the spread you see here is the spread the configurator charges.
Common questions
Which species is the hardest?
Ebony — 3080 LBF on the Janka scale, the densest board on the spectrum. Wenge, Hard Maple, and Sapele follow. Janka measures resistance to denting: higher is harder.
Which species matches existing oak floors and millwork?
Usually White Oak — most oak flooring and millwork of the last decades is White or Red Oak, so matching means using the same wood, not a stain. Red Oak reads warmer and bolder; rift sawn White Oak reads calmest.
Does the species change the price?
Only the material line. Milling, finishing, and delivery — the value add — price identically across all fourteen species, so the board alone sets the difference. The material band here tracks the live rate card the configurator charges from.