Some more wood to ID

wish I could. It was given to me by one of a few generous friends who’ve given me scale material these past few years. But Hephaestus has me sold.
 
Bottom pieces appear to be bloodwood. Top pieces I think are likely monkeypod. The grain is too course to be bloodwood. The difference between heart and sapwood is usually color. The grain structure doesn't usually change.
 
J. Hoffman said:
Bottom pieces appear to be bloodwood. Top pieces I think are likely monkeypod.
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I got the top pieces from Bell Forest Products. I wanted to give them an opportunity to respond to this before I replied here, so I called Josh over there and asked him what the chances are that I was sent monkeypod instead of Bloodwood. He assured me this is bloodwood, and that they don't sell monkeypod. He explained that mokeypod is so rare that receiving it by accident when ordering bloodwood would be like ordering copper and receiving gold or platinum instead.

He also offered to look at the thread and give his opinion on the other wood I received, which I thought was very kind of him, and well above the call of duty, since I didn't receive the wood from the first post from Bell Forest, but he nevertheless took the time to share his thoughts.

He seemed pretty definitive that number one is a figured walnut, and number two is a regular walnut. He said number 3's end grain looks like ash, but the face grain looks more like mango so he wasn't 100% on that one. He was very confident the 4th one is jatoba, and says its possible the 5th is bloodwood, but asked for more pictures in natural light, so I'll email him those later.
 
I think E Evan Wilson might have it right. Bloodwood isn’t a wood I stock, so I only have a few boards in my stash. I don’t have any with sapwood, but the stuff from Bell Forest looks very similar to the bloodwood sapwood pics I’ve found online.
 
The easiest way to to tell the difference between bloodwood and other red woods is the density. Red heart/ chakte viga, paudauk and others are medium~ medium high density. Similar range as oak or maple. Bloodwood/ satine is INCREDIBLY dense. Its a close relative of snakewood and has a density of around ~1.0 g/cm^3. To my knowledge, there are no bright red woods with anywhere near the density of bloodwood.
 
David Mary said:
Fixall Fixall thank you for the reminder.

The four on the bottom are the same piece I posted earlier, cut into scale blanks. Very different from the bloodwood I just got in.

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While anything is possible, i am quite confident the top pieces are not bloodwood. Not bloodwood sapwood either. The grain is too course on those. There is no grain structure difference between sapwood and heartwood, as sapwood turns into heartwood. The scorching on the lower blocks makes me even more confident those are bloodwood. That is a mix of regular saw scorch with a little resin weeped out and burned in the cut. Thats what happens when you cut bloodwood.

The top pieces could be anything, monkeypod is as good a guess as any.

Bell, rockler and other large scale wood retailers are not super careful about what gets labeled as what. They get big shipments and sort of slap whatever name some guy said. Cocobolo, Hond rose, Mexican kingwood, Gutamalan rosewood, Panama rosewood and amazon rosewood all get mixed together and will end being sold as eachother at some point. Species get mislabeled or moved to different piles. They are good guys and their products are pretty good. Im sure if you were to raise a stink they would probably address it. But yeah, if you are looking for specific species i recommend a reputable exotic wood dealer.
 
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