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Your cart is empty. Central and South America purpleheart (peltogyne). Medium to hard wood with tight, fairly straight grain with moderate to coarse texture. Bright purple when cut, darkens to brownish purple with exposure. Purpleheart is a very strong wood, machines well with sharp tools. Turns and finishes well. Uses for purpleheart include: boat-building, flooring, furniture, heavy construction, and a variety of specialty wood items. Pens, knife scales, bottle stoppers. Stock is cut to size from quality, kiln-dried stock. 100% clear and sanded on both sides. Dimensions are +- 1/8" grain runs with the longest dimension.
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john c young
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2025
Quick delivery with great color and clean cut of wood
scooter1961
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2022
I won't buy thus again. It's not kiln Dryer. Getting soaked with water as I'm turning it. Plus the wood has started to Crack as you can see in the photos.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2022
There was a mix up with shipping and they sent out new wood and let me keep the other wood too very nice and helpful and the purple on the one block is very dark and rich, beautiful stuff
Brendan Riddle
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2021
The wood itself is beautiful and in perfect condition. I would've given 5 stars if the dimensions were correct.One side was a quarter inch short of 6 while the other was another eighth shorter than that. Not a single squared edge on the entire block.Since this piece is intended for a chessboard I'll be making the material loss to square it up means I may have to purchase another smaller piece of purple heart. I'll be lucky if I don't and even moreso if I do and the color matches.
John Kline
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2021
Wood was very unstable and cracked severely. Not useable.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2020
This wood had large cracks throughout. Not useable.
Raymond
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2015
I actually wasn't planning on turning this blank, just bought it to make knife handles and miscellaneous things, but it arrived well waxed for turning but wasn't 100% square. Another thing I liked about it is that it was definitely nice heartwood, it could've been set out for a longer time period for that deep purple color but I just set it out for awhile myself and it turned out nice. Definitely will buy again. :)
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