Purpleheart
Purpleheart: hardness, how it works, how much it moves, what it costs and what it is used for.
- Botanical name
- Peltogyne spp.
- Type
- hardwood
- Region
- Central and South America
- Janka hardness (lbf)Side hardness as published by The Wood Database
- 2,520 lbf
- Colour
- purple, ages to brown
- Workability
- hard
- MovementHow much it shrinks and swells with humidity
- moderate
- Price band
- mid
- Typical uses
- Accents, turning, inlay
- Working notes
- Very hard and dense; dulls blades; the purple deepens with light then browns.
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