Is a very strange wood,Last year two knife guys and I invested in a 40 LB log.
the guy we bought it from had it X-rayed as they are known to have rotten centers,This one was solid but the grain starts to lesson towards the center.
Went thru 3, 4 TPI Re-saw blades on my bandsaw to get this thing slabbed,was A pita.
I tried turning some on the lathe,no go,it splinters and checks bigtime,But it works great by hand,just do's not do well with machine tools IME