You never know exactly what the woods are in these pieces, as there are so many species that what is native to Vietnam is different than what we have in North America. It confuses me sometimes, and I've been working with fine woods for over a quarter of a century. From what I can tell, they are using well-applied veneers over a non-nondescript native hardwood that I can't identify by sight, and then a combination of solids as well (mostly Mahogany). I've had one other small batch of their product in and its old relatively quickly, and I had confidence enough in what I saw to order about 20 pieces at Market this past October. I like it for the price/value and style choices. While I would naturally prefer to have it done benchmade by a USA Craftsman, the reality of that is those pieces would be 3x to 4x more costly to do them that way. So I think its a reasonable alternative to the really good stuff and don't anticipate seeing and failure issues with the product.