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Bobbo would know better than me but I would recommend Sapele - I made one (I'll try and dig photos out) five years ago and still looks like new - nice to work with and not too expensive
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Depends on span and expected style, finish.
I'm a sucker for cleft chestnut
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As @pryally says sapele would be good as would meranti (slightly cheaper but still a tropical hardwood - often sold as hardwood in selco et al). Softwood wise western red cedar looks amazing and is brilliant to work with, larch or doug fir nwould also be good shouts.
Do you want to paint it or show off your wood?
pryally
Grumpy_Git
Bobbo
Finished (kind of) with the cowboy house and now have a lovely big pile of rough sawn doug fir to play with.
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