What wood is this please?

[chinita]

Could be Primavera

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=pr...w=199&start=0&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:0,i:95

 

[BERT T]

Looking at the grain structure, my bet would be on pink meranti.

+1 It looks very like it and would be roughly twice the weight of balsa.

 

[davidpbo]

Thank you for the input everyone, an interesting range of suggestions. I was looking for a piece of timber to use as a backing block for the shroud U bolts. In the end I am using a piece of oak.