While renowned for its often deep, rich purple hues, Purpleheart is actually one of the toughest woods in the world. It is considered one of the stiffest, hardest woods -- boasting an impressive strength-to-weight ratio. It is also extremely water resistant, which, combined with its toughness, has seen it frequently used in outdoor decking and even as truckbed flooring. The wood is typically straight or wavy grained (though sometimes irregular). Its texture ranges from fine to medium, and it has a nice natural luster that emerges when fine sanded. The wood works and turns well, although sharp tools and blades are a necessity. It glues and finishes well, also.
Purpleheart Knife Scales – Bookmatched set
Choose small or large from dropdown
Small minimum dimensions: 12×3.5×0.7cm
Large minimum dimensions:min 17×3.5×0.7cm
Clearance Bundle: Older Purpleheart bundle. Surface is grey, but cleans up to a beautiful purple, as you can see on the top row.
Bundle size: 370cm x 70cm x 9cm
Piece dimensions: +-275-370cm x 10-15cm x 1.5-2.0cm (has been planed thinner than nominal 26mm)
Approximate m3: 0.23m3. At retail price, this would be R10700 excl
NB: Febfest Clearance bundles are sold “voetstoots” with no returns.
Boards can be twisted, skew and cracked, but there is lots of usable wood.
Feel free to come in and assess the bundles in person before buying or call for more photos and details if you are up country.
Use for turning, pen making, cutting board accents or anything else you see fit….
The photographs are representative of the stock you will receive. You won’t typically received surfaced blanks, but we surface a few on the photographs to give you an idea of what the wood looks like.
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Although we don't have any listed pieces for this species available in our online store, add this species to your Quote Request and we'll get back to you with availability in our warehouse.
We offer free shipping within South Africa on all online orders over R1,000 subject to the following conditions:
We will either deliver ourselves or use one of our courier partners.
Long packages may be subject to a long package surcharge.
We currently only offer shipping for online purchases to South Africa.
If you want us to ship elsewhere, please drop us an email and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Free shipping applies to online orders only.
Clearance Bundles do not qualify for free shipping.
Please note, we aren’t able to ship to farms or informal settlements.
Shipping timelines:
Packages are shipped out Monday through Friday.
We pride ourselves on speedy packing and whenever possible will ship packages on order date or the next business day, unless you have chosen a machining add-on.
Large orders may take a little longer to process.
Machining will take up to 7 working days to process.
We make no guarantees on delivery timeframe, but our shipping partners strive to deliver within 5 working days.
Any order placed after 10am on a Friday will most likely be shipped on the following Monday.
We will do our best to keep you updated should there be any delays in pickup due to ourselves, our shipping partners or the weather.
Please Note:
Our shipping rules are subject to change at any time – especially as we add new products to our site.
