Brazilian Redwood

[ozark caveman]

A fancy shmancy architect I worked for used Brazilian redwood on his home for siding. The stuff was very hard, dense, and heavy. I you looked closely on it the grain resembled Osage. I'm wondering if any of you have used this wood? I would love to get a piece of it

[Badger]

  Ozarkm same as bulletwood, beefwood and masaranduba. very good bow wood, I prefer to back it but have used it unbacked as well. Steve

[markinengland]

Not quite as good as Ipe as a belly wood but still good.
I have heard of some flight archers using it as a backing wood but haven't tried this myself.
The planks I got had checked on one side leaving internal flaws that lifted once on the bow so look for that.
Mark in England

[adb]

Is that the same as Jatoba? If so, I've used jatoba successfully with hickory backing.

[snedeker]

Jatoba is the brazilian cherry.  Lighter than Massaranduba, which is in turn lighter than ipe.  I like the B Redwood/Massaranduba backed with bamboo.     I hade a couple frets on the boo backted Jatoba I made.

Dave