Planning to make a wrongko

[Jean]

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

The better Bugis wrongkos normally use a middling hard wood with strong chatoyancy. You probably will not be able to get anything like this, and for a beginning carver, soft wood is a lot easier to handle than hard wood. Most mahoganies carve well, stay with what you have already started.

To me a good Bugis wrongko should have the gambar made from kemuning and the gandar from angsana like this specimen.