Hi everyone
This is Paolo, from the www.chatometry.com team.
I just wanted to share something about what we've been doing in the last years. Basically, we identified a reliable method to measure wood chatoyance, which is the way many wood species shift their color depending on the lighting direction.
This piece of Sapele is a common example (sanded to 1500-grit with no finish):

 

 

Now the useful info: we put together a summary table based on thousands of samples, showing the typical chatoyance value of many wood species - here:
https://www.chatometry.com/woods/
Each wood can be clicked to reach its specific page, which shows some example of chatoyance on that wood.

I hope these data can actually help some of you
Paolo

Good morning Chatometry, a lot of research went into this, and I greatly appreciate you sharing it, I visited your website and it'll be a wonderful resource in the future. I'd like to invite you to install your site link in our Links Directory, perhaps under the Research category. You can find our Links Directory at the following url https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/links/

 

In the future please refer your website to our Links Directory, then folks can skip off to your site from there.

Again, this is a wonderful research project you have undertaken, and it'll benefit woodworkers greatly. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for the information and the kink!

4 hours ago, John Morris said:

Good morning Chatometry, a lot of research went into this, and I greatly appreciate you sharing it, I visited your website and it'll be a wonderful resource in the future. I'd like to invite you to install your site link in our Links Directory, perhaps under the Research category. You can find our Links Directory at the following url https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/links/

 

In the future please refer your website to our Links Directory, then folks can skip off to your site from there.

Again, this is a wonderful research project you have undertaken, and it'll benefit woodworkers greatly. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you! I will add our link!

Paolo

Great resource , Thanks for posting.