Mystery wood ID help

What color is the sawdust? does it have a sort of wet sand texture that sticks together if you squeeze it? is it brighter than the wood itself?

Im leaning a little more towards a rosewood. The distinct spice scent is the main reason. Lots of woods have a smell, but the dalbergia genus is the only one i know of with a very distinct spicy smell.
 
Greenberg Woods said:
What color is the sawdust? does it have a sort of wet sand texture that sticks together if you squeeze it? is it brighter than the wood itself?

Im leaning a little more towards a rosewood. The distinct spice scent is the main reason. Lots of woods have a smell, but the dalbergia genus is the only one i know of with a very distinct spicy smell.
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It’s orange-ish. Brighter than the wood as you see it in the raw sanded pic I posted. It’s very fine & powdery, but I didn’t pinch any together. Smell is subjective, and cinnamon isn’t the only aroma present, just one I picked out, kind of a pot pouri smell my Mom used to put in our bathroom growing up. 😆
 
Very probably cocobolo or another close relative. Some sort of central American Rosewood. Fine powdery orange sawdust and the distinct smell make me lean away from katalox or other darker woods like that. Ebony, katalox and a lot of other dense woods tend to not produce the powder as much. They trend towards small chips and string pieces.
 
Looks like IPE to me (Brazilain Walnut). I have many pieces of it for knife scales. It is HARD (noted as one of the hardest woods in the world). Very dense, virtually no knots, and has been known to last up to 75 years outdoors with no treatment.
It is 2.7 times harder than white oak. My guess.
 
Hale Storm said:
Looks like IPE to me (Brazilain Walnut). I have many pieces of it for knife scales. It is HARD (noted as one of the hardest woods in the world). Very dense, virtually no knots, and has been known to last up to 75 years outdoors with no treatment.
It is 2.7 times harder than white oak. My guess.
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The grain and color arent quite right. The biggest tell that its not Ipe is the saw dust color and smell after being cut. Ipe has distinctive, almost neon yellow saw dust that is very distinctive. Ipe also has a faint, slightly sweet/ chemical smell very different from the spicy of cocobolo or other rosewoods.
 
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