Always save one unfinished , perfectly planed, 6 or 4 inch cube wood sample to add to your collection.
Then play "Guess the type of wood" with other friends, and have them drop their jaws at the astounding density and beauty of woods like Ebony and Kona and much heavier harder endangered woods.
Only the prettiest or heaviest are the most interesting to add to your collection of "GUESS THIS WOOD" :
https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/restricted-and-endangered-wood-species/
You obviously need to mix in wood blocks from 10 famous american woods too.
No one would ever guess more than 10% of these 10 less famous iron-woods :
https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/top-ten-heaviest-woods/
Why cubes?
So you can stack them in little stacks on a shelf.
Just dont invite the Feds to your house or garage.
Lol you must be a fellow wood worker. I work with some people that have been in the industry for a while but are still unable to distinguish hard from soft maple or red from white oak.
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