Hello Lawal. I hope you were able to get answer to this question? Please, I want to know what afromosiabis called in Yoruba and hausa. Help me out

Dabema is another word

Dahoma is the most common name used, but I simply haven’t added it to the site yet.

Thanks Andy, I don’t see Dahoma in the database here. Is there another name? Also it’s more a ‘footy’ smell. No trace of the sulphuric egg smell.

Most likely it was Dahoma. Commonly used as railway sleepers, in the past and stinks of rotten eggs when freshly cut.

I have a djembe drum from Guinea made of Pericopsis laxiflora, otherwise known as afromosia or, as the drum maker called it, Kolo Kolo. It is considered quite a rare and special wood for drums and I’ve only seen three out of this wood out of many hundreds. It is a wonderful drum wood. I haven’t carved or sanded it, so have no info about problems, but many hardwoods are toxic on the skin or in the lungs. One of the worst is cocobolo, a rosewood. Don’t take chances breathing any hardwood dust. When it mixes with mucous inside the lungs it turns to cement. It’s also carcinogenic.

Yes you can if your laminating the woods together , I have used Iroko ( another African teak like wood)

This is as good as I could do with the camera phone

Very hard to tell from the pictures. If you happen to get a closeup endgrain picture of the raw wood, it would be a lot easier to tell the wood apart that way.

English longbows were made from yew

What other types of wood do you use for bows?

As far as I know, just about every wood eventually turns gray when exposed to the elements.