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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 463354, member: 55&quot;]It might be worth noting that common names for wood are highly variable, depending on the country and language that one might be speaking - and even the era.&nbsp;&nbsp; (The common mahogany of my youth is a different wood than found in a new piece of mahogany furniture). </p><p>I believe Gaïac is a French term for the species which might be&nbsp; more commonly called lignum vitae in the Americas; however there are actually five species covered by either term, and only the heartwood, of some of them, is normally called lignum vitae...so one man&#039;s lignum vitae might be another man&#039;s <b>guayacán.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaiacum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaiacum" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaiacum</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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