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Natlek

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I get this from friend and I was told that it is rosewood .........But which one , anybody know ?
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Im almost certain it is purple heart, not rosewood.

Does it have a strong smell? does it shine easily?

Take a freshly sanded area and lightly go over it with a torch. Does the wood become more purple?
 
Ben, Tom, are ya'll talking about the two purple strips laying on top of the plank? The plank looks a lot like Rosewood, but it's darn hard to tell, isn't purple heart of the same family?
 
Ken H> said:
Ben, Tom, are ya'll talking about the two purple strips laying on top of the plank? The plank looks a lot like Rosewood, but it's darn hard to tell, isn't purple heart of the same family?
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The two stripes on top are two end grain slices. my bet is that the saw blade was hot enough it brought out the full color of the purpleheart. The top looks 5-10 years aged.

Purple heart is a very large, coarse grained, very tough wood from Brazil, while rosewoods are all the members of the dalbergia genus. Several grow in brazil, but none are exported from Brazil since i think the 80's.
 
The only Rosewood I'm familiar with at all is what's grown in Guatemala. I lived up the Rio Dulce back in 1990 thru 1992 and worked with and used Rosewood a good bit. I think that is called Honduran Rosewood - is that Rosewood legal to export from Guatemala?
 
Rosewood can also turn that purplish color when it gets hot/heated up. Not as much as purple heart, but it can look like that.
 
Palo Rosa/Rosewood is a protected species at least here in Argentina. Most trees are of known location. A relative of mine works in a luxury hotel that have many and one fell over a deck after a thunderstorm, they chopped it into pieces, here is one sample of it.

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Greenberg Woods said:
The two stripes on top are two end grain slices. my bet is that the saw blade was hot enough it brought out the full color of the purpleheart. The top looks 5-10 years aged.

Purple heart is a very large, coarse grained, very tough wood from Brazil, while rosewoods are all the members of the dalbergia genus. Several grow in brazil, but none are exported from Brazil since i think the 80's.
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Thanks my friend :thumbsup: As i read purple heart is very water resistant , so it is good for kitchen knives ? Should i cut this piece in blocks in dimension for kitchen knife at once or it is better to cut piece when i need one ? As you guest this piece is aged long time ................
Thanks again ! I spend hours on net looking in rosewood family ...and find nothing .
 
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PEU said:
Palo Rosa/Rosewood is a protected species at least here in Argentina. Most trees are of known location. A relative of mine works in a luxury hotel that have many and one fell over a deck after a thunderstorm, they chopped it into pieces, here is one sample of it.

Pablo

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Palo Rosa from Argentina is not a true rosewood, that is to say a member of the dalbergia genus. If im not mistkane, that is Aspidosperma polyneuron

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Taz said:
Rosewood can also turn that purplish color when it gets hot/heated up. Not as much as purple heart, but it can look like that.
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The only rosewoods I am aware of that can get that purple are Mexican kingwood, Dalbergia Congestiflora and Bois De rose, Dalbegia Maritima. But the aged surface is all wrong for those wood, and the end grain slice shows consistant coloration, where as both of those woods would shoe strongly defined banding of darker grain areas along the endgrain, in a similar grain pattern to Cocobolo. They also both have a very strong and distinct smell that I think Natlek would have noticed. I am 95% sure that what he has is simply purpleheart.
 
Ken H> said:
The only Rosewood I'm familiar with at all is what's grown in Guatemala. I lived up the Rio Dulce back in 1990 thru 1992 and worked with and used Rosewood a good bit. I think that is called Honduran Rosewood - is that Rosewood legal to export from Guatemala?
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Dalbergia Stevonsoni. Yes, all members of the dalbergia genus are Cities listed.
 
Greenberg Woods said:
The only rosewoods I am aware of that can get that purple are Mexican kingwood, Dalbergia Congestiflora and Bois De rose, Dalbegia Maritima. But the aged surface is all wrong for those wood, and the end grain slice shows consistant coloration, where as both of those woods would shoe strongly defined banding of darker grain areas along the endgrain, in a similar grain pattern to Cocobolo. They also both have a very strong and distinct smell that I think Natlek would have noticed. I am 95% sure that what he has is simply purpleheart.
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Well, this is near Iguazu Falls, where Argentina meets Brazil, here is a pic of the fallen tree, no wood mill show would accept cutting this tree there, they can get in trouble with authorities, not sure if the real deal or not, but they make a big deal...

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PEU said:
Well, this is near Iguazu Falls, where Argentina meets Brazil, here is a pic of the fallen tree, no wood mill show would accept cutting this tree there, they can get in trouble with authorities, not sure if the real deal or not, but they make a big deal...

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That, im not sure. you get into common names and trade names and mill names, it could well be a rosewood.
 
It looks a lot like this wood called Bolivian Rosewood the I bought a lot of years ago for making tool handles out of.
 
Natlek said:
Thanks my friend :thumbsup: As i read purple heart is very water resistant , so it is good for kitchen knives ? Should i cut this piece in blocks in dimension for kitchen knife at once or it is better to cut piece when i need one ? As you guest this piece is aged long time ................
Thanks again ! I spend hours on net looking in rosewood family ...and find nothing .
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i would cut it as needed. you might want a smaller or larger piece for a particular knife
 
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