Very late answer but no. Ekki, like other hardwood, will turn a silver colour over time and oil treatments are not really effective.

I have learned that some wood which was gifted to me, I was told at the time, was African Teak – They were 4″x 4″s and were very dense. I stored them for many years in my shed. I have learned recently, that this wood, is actually Ekki. – One day, I sent them off to a luthier, and had him cut, mill and shape them into an absolutely gorgeous Fender Telecaster Style, chambered, Guitar Body. It does have an iridescent quality to the gloss-finished front of the guitar, and a beautiful nitrocellulose satin finish on the rear. The rear grain has many pale yellow streaks throughout the generally reddish brown color of the bulk of the wood grain. I’m a very happy owner as this is a wood you will probably never find if you’re out shopping for an electric Guitar. Yes, it’s a bit heavy, but it truly does sound phenomenal. A one-off to be sure, and a true treasure to me.

jw- It may have smelled like those, but I don’t remember . Sorry .

Yes, those are two odors that would fit. The odor actually frightened me, and I never again sawed any of the pieces I purchased from the chemical plant. The odor, of course, may have come from absorbed chemicals still in the wood.

Yes! So this is what I have exactly then. I wasn’t sure because it looks like ekki but according to the Wood Database, there’s no odor. But is there ever! Stinks like feet and vomit! Since it was reclaimed wood that I was using, I assumed it was due to that. So I cleaned it with dish soap as you do for reclaimed wood. No change. And man is this stuff hard to cut…blunts everything.

did it smell like nasty cheese / vomit by any chance ?

Looks good, nice to see what the sapwood looks like too.

I feel like the wood you got was damaged due to its previous use, i have used ekki to make various items and got the complete opposite experience. sanded it up to 3000g and it had a lovely natural luster, it glued as well as you would expect for an oily wood (gorilla glue PU, still stuck no issues). Ekki is known to be difficult to dry so if it has been submerged for many decades before you got it, it would potentially need another decade to fully dry.

After reevaluating, I do not think Acupuri and Ekki are the same wood. Pretty sure they are not.

Another name for this is Bongossi.
I’ve also seen this going by the name Acupuri