| A skilled cabinetmaker, he built a pair of end tables from walnut, ash, cocobolo and padauk, steam-bent into curvy multicolored strips that look like pieces of luscious taffy. |
| Twenty species are available, including American varieties and exotic types like zebrawood, padauk, and wenge. |
| There are at least seven species of wood that carry a version of the name padauk, however, African padauk is the most commercially popular. |
| The name refers especially to Pterocarpus indicus, or India padauk, noted for the ability of its wood to take a high polish. |
| Other imported species commonly reported were jatoba, purple heart, padauk, zebrawood, African mahogany, and Spanish cedar. |
| In the dusty workroom her artificially red ponytail glowed like padauk, one of the exotic veneers she uses in her work. |
