Beautiful lumber. I have used Padauk many times to build custom stave and segmented drums. Please make sure you plant more trees than you harvest so that it never runs out!I picked up p a discarded table from the side of the road. Under the mud brown varnish, Paduak. I now have a remodelled Paduak table. Beautiful colour and grain.This kind of beautiful piece of work is mother nature's gift to us. We have to do our best to treasure it. This is not some fluke tree. It is real. There are so many more...we have to acknowledge and appreciate these precious gifts.