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Mozambique Veneer
Also sold as ovangkol — an African hardwood with olive-brown ground and dark, decisive stripe.
Varying shades of yellowish to reddish brown with darker brown, gray, or black stripes. Moderately wide sapwood is a pale yellow, clearly demarcated from heartwood. Sometimes seen with a curly or mottled grain pattern.
Mozambique — Guibourtia ehie, sold at least as often as ovangkol, and also as shedua or amazique — is a West African hardwood with an olive-brown to gray-brown ground and dark, decisive stripe running through it. Quartered, the stripe is even and vertical; flat-cut, it opens into a broader, more restless pattern.
It is a Guibourtia, which is the same genus as bubinga, and the two get confused in specification more often than they should. They are not interchangeable: bubinga is red and CITES-listed, mozambique is olive-brown and is not, so lead times and paperwork are entirely different. If a drawing says "bubinga or similar", ask which one is actually meant before anybody orders.
The stripe deepens noticeably under finish — an oil or a warm-toned lacquer pushes the ground brown and makes the dark lines read almost black, while a water-clear finish keeps the olive. Finish a sample the way the job will be finished before signing it off. Available raw, two-ply, paper-backed, and pressed to panel, sequenced from one flitch.
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