Reply To: Identifying Meranti vs. Sapele vs. Utile (vs. Mahogany)
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if it’s very very dusty it’s more likely to be meranti, sapele is harder and has a much nicer grain pattern, I haven’t used utile. I’ve found that with meranti you need to keep your tools sharp or it can get very dusty quite fast, there is light and dark red meranti, they have a very open grain with much bigger pores than sapele. It’s very unlikely to be genuine mahogany because of how hard it is to find, the real mahogany is much richer in colour and very easy to to work, if you have any photos that would help us.