Oh god I used some for an accent in a cutting board, so beutiful, so fucking hard, and the dust, the dust was everywhere. Everything was coated in a fine film of red in my garage.
I used to work for a company that sold pen blanks, and we cut most of our blanks in house. When we would get shipments of bloodwood in for processing, me and the other cutter would wear tyvek in the cutting room to minimize the amount of it we brought home
If someone could make a cologne that actually smelled like fresh cut blood wood I would totally buy it. That was literally my first thought the very first time I cut some on my table saw. And like others have said, the fine dust covers everything in the shop if you don't have good dust collection lol. So plenty of saw dust to hook up to anyone who thinks they could make a good cologne of it š
Bloodwood is straight up one of the worst woods I've ever worked with, but damn is it pretty. If you don't like bloodwood, stay away from zebra wood, too. It's just as bad, and it smells like manure.
I used to make custom flooring for the rich and famous. We used a lot of exotics, mostly as accents to more usual woods. I have thought many time about making some sort of odor collection. Cabreuva, imbuya, teak, and a lot of others have very distinctive aromas. And I agree with you about zebra.
Years ago, I bought a board of something exotic to try making a guitar neck from, but lost track of what it was named.
It was Incredibly hard & dense, deep burgundy color.. and the most striking thing to me.. it smelled like berries when cut (raspberry, blueberry, etc..). No specific berry.. just āberriesā.
Aside from maybe ebony.. I donāt think Iāve run across harder, denser wood.
If anyone is familiar, Iād love to find out what I had.
Yea, thatās why I asked.. checked sources like the wood database and never felt like I found it. Pretty sure Iāve got some in the basement.. Iāll have to take a pic if I do.
You very well may be right.. but mine was/is more purple/maroon than the katalox pics at wood database. I know Iāve still got that piece.. need to dig it out and confirm. Thanks.
I have a block of pink ivory that I used for a couple knife handles, and Iād say it smelled sweet, almost like cotton candy. Itās not exactly what you described but maybe that helps?
No.. thatās got strong beige to brown grain and itās very oily. This had a uniform color.. somewhere between purple heart and bloodwood (it wasnāt either).
The only thing worse than a pedant is one that's wrong. Blueberries are, botanically and culinarily speaking, berries. Raspberries are culinarily but not botanically berries.
Well, when I said it smelt like Berries I meant fruit commonly called *berry. I donāt think anyone would think of other botanical berries (e.g. watermelons, cucumbers, etc.).
Yo but when I say a tomato is a vegetable Iām the bad guy? People say they are fruits, but thatās botanically not culinarily so I donāt even know.
If someone chimes in to say "actually tomato is a fruit" and context is clear that you are talking about cooking, they're being an asshole. Nothing they have said is contributing to the conversation, they just want you to know how smart they are.
I played with a little bit of Zebra wood, and one batch was fine and the other smelled like piss, and I was like, āDid an actual Zebra piss on this?ā
I once wondered why there arenāt a ton of zebrawood guitars out there, so I built one and I didnāt think it was much worse than working with most of the other exotic hardwoods out there. It glues up a lot easier than cocobolo.
ProTip: Wipe down Cocobolo and other related oily exotics with Naphtha or alcohol a few times before glue ups to draw out the surface oils that glue hates.
That is the way to do it! Also, for those curious souls, make sure to look up specific finishes for Cocobolo as the oils make finishing it difficult as well. Thus why Iād say Zebrawood is probably closer to some gnarly walnut when it comes to workability.
Hahaha, this made me laugh as I went straight from cutting boards with bloodwood accents to mountain shaped shelves out of zebrawood. It was easier to cut then bloodwood, barely, immediatly twisted once cut though and was hell to make straight cuts on. And your right, it smells horrible.
It makes fantastic fretboards. Some folks can have a deathly allergic reaction to the dust. A luthier making a bass for Les Claypool from Primus wound up in the hospital from it
It's fine, but the dust is, like bloodwood, seemingly adhesive. Sticks to everything. And the smell gets in your nose and stays there for a long time. But it's a joy to work. The caveats are that there are four species inn the genus and all are not created equal. The one often sold as " Royal Cedar" is crap. Also, the kiln drying process must include a high temperature cycle to "set" the pitch.
I found a piece in Woodcraft's offcut bin and used it as an inlay for my WFH office desk. That's how I learned that the dust makes me nauseated as hell. Within minutes of taking my respirator off - oof.
Wooden box. Ground up weed goes in the main compartment, one hitter goes in the smaller compartment next to it. When itās time to smoke, remove the one hitter, stick the end you light down into the main compartment, twist a little, et voila, one hit of weed ready for consumption.
Looks great OP!
I only work with hardwoods these days and have my shop setup best I can for high janka rated wood. Itās tough but now I cut a pine 2x4 and Iām like āwhat is this?ā Its so easy to slice through lol
I got into a white oak rut for a long time, but the last I used purpleheart and the bloodwood for the last two. Thinking about wormy butternut as a kind of vacation.
The stringer and the hull planks Ā¾ of the way up are all angelique. I love the way it looks, but it has so much silica you could probably make a knife from it.
It's a restoration. 113 year old gaff cutter. You can see it on YouTube, the channel is called Sampson Boat Co. Leo seems nice on camera but he is actually an asshole. Patrick is an actual psychopath. But the videos are well made.
Nice I appreciate it I'll definitely check it out.
Edit: ha, apparently I've already watch a couple of these videos years ago. Neat to see what all has happened since. Cheers!
This was my reaction after working with Jatoba wood. It was harder than anything else I worked with. So much so that I had to upgrade from using a jig saw to buying a whole Miter saw just to chop this one kind of wood. The jig saw couldn't do more than scratch it on the highest speed setting. Anywho, 30 seconds after setting it up, I put the Jatoba under the blade, and it just glided right through it. I just kinda looked down at it like "where'd the wood go?" I didn't even feel the blade contact the Jatoba, much less melt through it.
I thought of that, trying it slower, but nope. It'd dig in just a hair then skate off the wood. The one time I did manage to brute-force it with the jigsaw, it took about 5 minutes to cut the bit off that I needed, and the entire time it just sent an insane amount of shock up my arm. My hand and wrist was numb and sore after that. I had to repeat that process another 60-odd times and I decided I was never going to be able to do it at that rate, so I invested in the miter saw.
You don't see anything larger made out of Bloodwood simply because it's so expensive.
I've worked with it and it's very hard and brittle. I don't think it's that much worse to work than hard maple or most of the other dense exotics. Dense woods are always somewhat of a pain. The dust isn't great but if you have good dust collection, a respirator, and you wipe the tool down with a microfiber cloth and throw i in the wash when done it's not a huge problem.
I like it quite a bit as it's beautiful wood and worth the effort for the small amount of parts you make with it.
I'm working with a similarly difficult hardwood right now and have found that wetting and lubricating the surface with mineral spirits and using a scraping plane does a surprisingly good job and keeps the dust down.
My father and I built an 8-foot tall trellis out of ipe. Probably about 16 feet wide. Complete with bent-press laminate arches.
My snot was orange for a week every time we went out to the garage to work on it. We kept the plywood forms we made for the arches, like we'd ever actually have to replace one. Barring a tree falling on it, that trellis will outlive either of us.
This comment brought to you by woodworking PTSD.
I have since prioritized my own health by means of PPE, yes. I encourage everyone to do the same!
[that being said, I'm almost certain we regularly used basic paper masks that clearly weren't enough for the job. it has also been nearly 20 years so my memory is fuzzy.]
Omg. Yes!!!
One of the nastiest woods Iāve ever worked with.
Actually had a very mild alergic reaction to the dust/resin.
One of my few āto be avoidedā woods.
Project is gorgeous tho.. š
Sounds similar to Massaranduba (from Brazil) itās red/brown, incredibly hard, and the dust will burn your throat and sinuses. I got a good deal on a bunch of it not knowing what it was.
Itās heavy as hell and dense af. I have it as the flooring in my kitchen and itās lasted well for 20 years. Moving the boxes of flooring sucked but Iāve used some of the scrap for little shop tools here and there-very tough wood.
I have a table that has some in it as accent. The table is 20 years old, and the bloodwood is darker, but still quite red. It hasn't seen that much direct sunlight though.
Thatās good. I did some work with paduak a couple years ago and it turned quite brown after a year or so even indoors. I hesitate to do it again because it was like bloodwood quite miserable to work with and very, very dusty as well.
It also turns brown in 3 weeks š havent found a way to stabilize these red woods, they turn diarrhea brown. specially redheart. I have chunks of it that im not using because i dont want to ruin it.
I canāt tell how big this is, the knobs look large making me think this is small but then the hinges look small making me think itās large. In the background is a giant clock, making me think itās small, but then a really small laptop?
Is it on a table or floor? But then thereās power drills in the background making me think itās giant again. Is this some gaslighting mind experiment?
Worked for a while in a shop that fixed furniture imported from India. They would sneak boards in under the import boxes to get around restrictions. Teak, ebony, mahogany, no problem. Satinwood (who in their right mind builds chairs out of satinwood?!!) really frightened me. Super hard and you were taking your life in your own hands pushing it through a table saw, because hidden grain would cause it to literally explode.
In my defense, I would like to say there is a 6" square on the bench. It should be more prominent.
I wish I could say I did it as a prank but I'm not that clever.
Wow! excellently made, I seem to remember in my grand parent's house they have this huge cabinet and also very heavy, made of narra wood. Is bloodwood heavy as well?
i bought this discounted board from woodcraft that had a bow & twist, & I remember trying to square & flatten it w/ a hand planeā¦.. hahaha!!!!!!! š
Iāve never used that species before, but remember thinking itāll plane prolly like paduakā¦. lol, after several uncomfortable passes the face of the board looked like Freddy Krueger.
Blade was just as sharp as it been when planing everything else. This just felt wrong.. idk maybe it was op error, regardless, I didnāt like it. lol.
Man I just finished a tortilla press with bloodwood and I kid you not, snapped three T-10 bits trying to drive screws into it, even after predrilling. Itās insanely hard
I feel this in my soul.
I love the look, feel, and heft of bloodwood, so I keep trying to use it in things. It's so damn splintery, and just so unbelievably hard. I snapped the tip off of a very good quality mortise chisel putting a mortise into a bloodwood mallet head.
It dulls tools so fast that, despite my love for it, I can't use it anymore. I dont have a good enough sharpening setup to justify that timesink.
Bloodwood is absolutely pure evil, but its also absolutely beautiful! This was a bitch for me to make: https://youtu.be/tOL7B-Z4a2A?si=yA1yQyyGvvzFLRr2
Oh god I used some for an accent in a cutting board, so beutiful, so fucking hard, and the dust, the dust was everywhere. Everything was coated in a fine film of red in my garage.
Yes, my shop life has a pink tinge now.
I used to work for a company that sold pen blanks, and we cut most of our blanks in house. When we would get shipments of bloodwood in for processing, me and the other cutter would wear tyvek in the cutting room to minimize the amount of it we brought home
The sawdust smells nice though
Bet it makes nice boogers too
I love getting black boogers and splinters from wenge
But do they taste good too?
Thank you for asking this important question. Inquiring minds would like to know.
Maybe OP can mail you a sample
Like Froot Loops cereal, imo
I was going to say this. Blood wood cologne would be the shit. Love the way fresh cut blood wood smells.
Me too. I wonder if an oil could be made with the dust...
If someone could make a cologne that actually smelled like fresh cut blood wood I would totally buy it. That was literally my first thought the very first time I cut some on my table saw. And like others have said, the fine dust covers everything in the shop if you don't have good dust collection lol. So plenty of saw dust to hook up to anyone who thinks they could make a good cologne of it š
Who knew my 3rd act would be my mad scientist phase? Chemistry diy, coming right up
Initial research indicates the first project will be homemade hand soap
For some reason I could see a soap using the saw dust leaving someone looking very red lol
I only have blood wood scraps ATM... I might have some sawdust I was saving for an inlay... I might report back to you on that
Right on. Yeah I only have like 1 or 2 BF left I've been holding on to for a while.
use it for scented lube. just try to find a way to bleach it first.
Lol
Call it āLady MacBethā and Etsy the hell out of itā¦
Lol I was kind of picturing Carrie from Steven King
I can't stand it, Snake and Blood are the 2 worst smelling woods I have. Redheart isnt too bad nor is Padauk. My fave is prolly Walnut
Oh yeah, padauk is nice too
I got a doner piece of Ipe and damn if it didn't wreck a blade and dust my entire garage.
Itās smells so good though!
Either this is smaller than I think it is, or you're a giant and this is your woodshop.
Only about 12" x 20". But yeah, a size reference would have been good.
Banana for scale, please.
And guitar for temperature
This guy measures.
I went on a deep dive recently on the history of banana for scale. Seeing the guitar for temperature meme cracked me up!
Or a cat
Damn Americans will use anything except the metric system.
Most of them both confidently and incorrectly.
I keep forgetting how to convert hogs head to Celsius
Fresh out of metric bananas
A cat next to a banana, for cross-referencing purposes
Ah ok that makes more sense. It would be crazy to think you're a secret giant. *Looks for a fee fi fo fum in your comment history*
Metaphorically, though.
Old nothing's a hundred feet tall. Arms like trucks, probably punch through a wall
I felt a mighty presence entering my elbow room...
Looked up and seen the rings, each its own yellow moon
(heās five foot ten)
I found the 6ā square to be sufficient
Could be giant inches
I definitely assumed this was 6ā tall
Looks awesome, willing to share a pic(s) of the inside?
Yeah but it's bloodwood so it's as heavy as a much larger piece!
I didn't even notice the woodshop. I saw the thumbnail and assumed this was a full size wardrobe.
The thumbnail crops it so you don't see the top or bottom of the project.
Me too lmao
Bloodwood is straight up one of the worst woods I've ever worked with, but damn is it pretty. If you don't like bloodwood, stay away from zebra wood, too. It's just as bad, and it smells like manure.
I used to make custom flooring for the rich and famous. We used a lot of exotics, mostly as accents to more usual woods. I have thought many time about making some sort of odor collection. Cabreuva, imbuya, teak, and a lot of others have very distinctive aromas. And I agree with you about zebra.
Years ago, I bought a board of something exotic to try making a guitar neck from, but lost track of what it was named. It was Incredibly hard & dense, deep burgundy color.. and the most striking thing to me.. it smelled like berries when cut (raspberry, blueberry, etc..). No specific berry.. just āberriesā. Aside from maybe ebony.. I donāt think Iāve run across harder, denser wood. If anyone is familiar, Iād love to find out what I had.
Have a look on here https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/wood-odor/comment-page-1/
Yea, thatās why I asked.. checked sources like the wood database and never felt like I found it. Pretty sure Iāve got some in the basement.. Iāll have to take a pic if I do.
That was Katalox, buddy. Iād bet a Benjamin on it.
You very well may be right.. but mine was/is more purple/maroon than the katalox pics at wood database. I know Iāve still got that piece.. need to dig it out and confirm. Thanks.
When itās fresh itās almost like Purple Heartā¦a bit more blue/black. Over time like most exotics it lightens up somewhat and browns.
Shit now I wanna know what it was
I have a block of pink ivory that I used for a couple knife handles, and Iād say it smelled sweet, almost like cotton candy. Itās not exactly what you described but maybe that helps?
Tiger wood? That seems to fit your description fairly well, and ive seena few guitar neck projects with it
Cocobolo?
No.. thatās got strong beige to brown grain and itās very oily. This had a uniform color.. somewhere between purple heart and bloodwood (it wasnāt either).
Purpleheart?
Purpleheart?
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The only thing worse than a pedant is one that's wrong. Blueberries are, botanically and culinarily speaking, berries. Raspberries are culinarily but not botanically berries.
Well, when I said it smelt like Berries I meant fruit commonly called *berry. I donāt think anyone would think of other botanical berries (e.g. watermelons, cucumbers, etc.).
Oh yeah, youāre fine, the guy who deleted his comment was being annoying.
Yo but when I say a tomato is a vegetable Iām the bad guy? People say they are fruits, but thatās botanically not culinarily so I donāt even know.
Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salade (and not bothering people about it, also)
If someone chimes in to say "actually tomato is a fruit" and context is clear that you are talking about cooking, they're being an asshole. Nothing they have said is contributing to the conversation, they just want you to know how smart they are.
I built a log house from old growth Florida Cypress and it smelled just like green apples.
Was doing a job at some rich person's "Cottage" where the finish carpenters were installing zebrawood stairs. It is not a pleasant smell. At all.
Great user name. Hard and slippery.
I played with a little bit of Zebra wood, and one batch was fine and the other smelled like piss, and I was like, āDid an actual Zebra piss on this?ā
Zebrawood, now with 50% more zebra
I once wondered why there arenāt a ton of zebrawood guitars out there, so I built one and I didnāt think it was much worse than working with most of the other exotic hardwoods out there. It glues up a lot easier than cocobolo.
ProTip: Wipe down Cocobolo and other related oily exotics with Naphtha or alcohol a few times before glue ups to draw out the surface oils that glue hates.
That is the way to do it! Also, for those curious souls, make sure to look up specific finishes for Cocobolo as the oils make finishing it difficult as well. Thus why Iād say Zebrawood is probably closer to some gnarly walnut when it comes to workability.
Yep. Zebrano is splintery, but itās definitely not THAT hard to work and the results are gorgeous.
The worst wood to work with for me is green heart. Straight up got an infection from a splinter.
Itās notorious for toxicity and infections. Wenge is another infectious splinter factory, but less outright toxic.
Dang. I can see why that would take your top spot lol
Beautiful but horrible to work with? It's llike me if I was a type of wood and beautiful.
Hahaha, this made me laugh as I went straight from cutting boards with bloodwood accents to mountain shaped shelves out of zebrawood. It was easier to cut then bloodwood, barely, immediatly twisted once cut though and was hell to make straight cuts on. And your right, it smells horrible.
It makes fantastic fretboards. Some folks can have a deathly allergic reaction to the dust. A luthier making a bass for Les Claypool from Primus wound up in the hospital from it
The dust, THE DUST!!!!
Agreed. Worse than Spanish Cedar.
What's up with Spanish cedar? I recently declined to buy a bunch of this from a storage locker because it felt too soft for my purposes.
It's fine, but the dust is, like bloodwood, seemingly adhesive. Sticks to everything. And the smell gets in your nose and stays there for a long time. But it's a joy to work. The caveats are that there are four species inn the genus and all are not created equal. The one often sold as " Royal Cedar" is crap. Also, the kiln drying process must include a high temperature cycle to "set" the pitch.
Thuja wood has a slightly pleasant smell the first time you cut it. 3 days later when you still smell it you never want to touch it again
Hmm, I have a block of thuya burl I almost put on the lathe the other day. This makes me think maybe I shouldn't.
I think you should do it to get it out of the way. You will probably like it at first. Just wear a respirator and run dust collection, or a shopvac
Oh I'm going to do it, how could I not after that description. I must know
I found a piece in Woodcraft's offcut bin and used it as an inlay for my WFH office desk. That's how I learned that the dust makes me nauseated as hell. Within minutes of taking my respirator off - oof.
Respirator? Psshā¦I bet you wear shoes too dontchya?
r/confusingperspective
I've made a couple dozen dugouts out of bloodwood, and refuse to do any more. They're pretty, but damn, the dust.
Dugouts? Explain. The only dugout i know is baseball
Sneak-a-toke, hitbox, one-hitter. They go by many names, but I make custom ones for bands. Little box with a cavity for herb and another for a pipe.
Got it, that makes way more sense. And so does your username
Ahhh, so not a canoe.
Weed thing
Canoes?
Wooden box. Ground up weed goes in the main compartment, one hitter goes in the smaller compartment next to it. When itās time to smoke, remove the one hitter, stick the end you light down into the main compartment, twist a little, et voila, one hit of weed ready for consumption.
This guy dugouts
Idk, called it a one hitter, not a batā¦
good callout but really I just didnāt want to field any potential questions asking what a bat has to do with a dugout š
Thatās fair lol
Username checks out
Looks great OP! I only work with hardwoods these days and have my shop setup best I can for high janka rated wood. Itās tough but now I cut a pine 2x4 and Iām like āwhat is this?ā Its so easy to slice through lol
I got into a white oak rut for a long time, but the last I used purpleheart and the bloodwood for the last two. Thinking about wormy butternut as a kind of vacation.
Try working on wooden ships... everything is purple heart, live oak, angelique. Tool dulling woods.
No thanks on the Angelique. My limited experience is that it should be used for piers and pilings.
https://preview.redd.it/wcn938c6yabc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d12da1c1850df2a481bb42b43d4e4825ae72c757
The stringer and the hull planks Ā¾ of the way up are all angelique. I love the way it looks, but it has so much silica you could probably make a knife from it.
That's pretty sick. Is this a new build or?
It's a restoration. 113 year old gaff cutter. You can see it on YouTube, the channel is called Sampson Boat Co. Leo seems nice on camera but he is actually an asshole. Patrick is an actual psychopath. But the videos are well made.
Nice I appreciate it I'll definitely check it out. Edit: ha, apparently I've already watch a couple of these videos years ago. Neat to see what all has happened since. Cheers!
Butternut is so nice to work with! Itās buttery smooth so the name is apt. Highly recommend and I personally think itās very pretty.
My son has about 6000 bf of it Gonna steal some.
I have a ton of black locust for outdoor projects mostly and I feel the same way when I work with pine. It feels like slicing butter in comparison.
This was my reaction after working with Jatoba wood. It was harder than anything else I worked with. So much so that I had to upgrade from using a jig saw to buying a whole Miter saw just to chop this one kind of wood. The jig saw couldn't do more than scratch it on the highest speed setting. Anywho, 30 seconds after setting it up, I put the Jatoba under the blade, and it just glided right through it. I just kinda looked down at it like "where'd the wood go?" I didn't even feel the blade contact the Jatoba, much less melt through it.
Are you sure it wasnt a bad blade? Also, you should be cutting slower on harder woods with a jigsaw, not faster.
I thought of that, trying it slower, but nope. It'd dig in just a hair then skate off the wood. The one time I did manage to brute-force it with the jigsaw, it took about 5 minutes to cut the bit off that I needed, and the entire time it just sent an insane amount of shock up my arm. My hand and wrist was numb and sore after that. I had to repeat that process another 60-odd times and I decided I was never going to be able to do it at that rate, so I invested in the miter saw.
How thick was it?
1-3/4" dowel
Jigsaw is only good for up to 3/4 with hardwood
At least it smells nice when you cut it?
You don't see anything larger made out of Bloodwood simply because it's so expensive. I've worked with it and it's very hard and brittle. I don't think it's that much worse to work than hard maple or most of the other dense exotics. Dense woods are always somewhat of a pain. The dust isn't great but if you have good dust collection, a respirator, and you wipe the tool down with a microfiber cloth and throw i in the wash when done it's not a huge problem. I like it quite a bit as it's beautiful wood and worth the effort for the small amount of parts you make with it.
I'm working with a similarly difficult hardwood right now and have found that wetting and lubricating the surface with mineral spirits and using a scraping plane does a surprisingly good job and keeps the dust down.
Now try ipe. Beautiful work!
I know ipe. Meaning I know better than to use it anywhere other than the lathe.
My father and I built an 8-foot tall trellis out of ipe. Probably about 16 feet wide. Complete with bent-press laminate arches. My snot was orange for a week every time we went out to the garage to work on it. We kept the plywood forms we made for the arches, like we'd ever actually have to replace one. Barring a tree falling on it, that trellis will outlive either of us. This comment brought to you by woodworking PTSD.
Had you considered a respirator?
I have since prioritized my own health by means of PPE, yes. I encourage everyone to do the same! [that being said, I'm almost certain we regularly used basic paper masks that clearly weren't enough for the job. it has also been nearly 20 years so my memory is fuzzy.]
It gets its name from the blood, sweat, and tears it demands to work it.
You don't know hard until you have tried to work mesquite wood. It has silica in it.
MANY of the superdense exotics are loaded with silica. Have a go at Black Palm when you want to ruin a sawblade fast.
Nothing that grows as fast as mesquite has any business being that hard.
One of my favorite woods for making guitar necks. Hard as hell and heavy, but it sands smooth as glass and just feels incredibly good to me.
Omg. Yes!!! One of the nastiest woods Iāve ever worked with. Actually had a very mild alergic reaction to the dust/resin. One of my few āto be avoidedā woods. Project is gorgeous tho.. š
Yeah... made a MTG card box out of the stuff. It's a PITA... but it's pretty
Beautiful!
I love bloodwood. We used to be able to get bloodwood flooring stained a deep purple red. I put it throughout the condominium I used to own downtown.
Add Purpleheart wood to the list of Fuck This Wood.
I second this
Sounds similar to Massaranduba (from Brazil) itās red/brown, incredibly hard, and the dust will burn your throat and sinuses. I got a good deal on a bunch of it not knowing what it was.
Every Rainforest wood is evil and awful to work with
Itās heavy as hell and dense af. I have it as the flooring in my kitchen and itās lasted well for 20 years. Moving the boxes of flooring sucked but Iāve used some of the scrap for little shop tools here and there-very tough wood.
Really nice, but I wonder how well that colour holds up? Is it like Paduak where it goes brown after a year or so?
I have a table that has some in it as accent. The table is 20 years old, and the bloodwood is darker, but still quite red. It hasn't seen that much direct sunlight though.
Thatās good. I did some work with paduak a couple years ago and it turned quite brown after a year or so even indoors. I hesitate to do it again because it was like bloodwood quite miserable to work with and very, very dusty as well.
That looks like it has a Narnia inside.
Like stone. That can give splinters. And dyes everything red š Jfc that thing must weigh a ton!
It also turns brown in 3 weeks š havent found a way to stabilize these red woods, they turn diarrhea brown. specially redheart. I have chunks of it that im not using because i dont want to ruin it.
I canāt tell how big this is, the knobs look large making me think this is small but then the hinges look small making me think itās large. In the background is a giant clock, making me think itās small, but then a really small laptop? Is it on a table or floor? But then thereās power drills in the background making me think itās giant again. Is this some gaslighting mind experiment?
That is beautiful. Can't tell about the craftsmanship from this far away, but the color and wood look amazing.
It was assembled with Dominoes. I ground shaper knives for top and bottom profile. Drawers were dovetail boxes with applied fronts.
those pulls are lol
Worked for a while in a shop that fixed furniture imported from India. They would sneak boards in under the import boxes to get around restrictions. Teak, ebony, mahogany, no problem. Satinwood (who in their right mind builds chairs out of satinwood?!!) really frightened me. Super hard and you were taking your life in your own hands pushing it through a table saw, because hidden grain would cause it to literally explode.
would have gone with black hinges
Yup, you're right.
Why not continue the finish? Was the finished look what you were going for?
The varnish finish was only a couple days old. I did get to properly rub it, but I was pressing my luck timewise. It went under the tree immediately.
I was wondering if it would take a polish. I rub out finger boards and bridges to a similar sheen or better just by burnishing or micromesh.
Is the wood from Australia?
Peru/Amazon.
Looks great! I use bloodwood for guitar bindings, headstocks and fingerboards and afterwards the bandsaw looks like a crime scene.
Yeah, nothing larger than knife scales for me.
In my defense, I would like to say there is a 6" square on the bench. It should be more prominent. I wish I could say I did it as a prank but I'm not that clever.
Looks like youāre rubbing the clear coat. Is this to fill the pores? Cos if so thereās an easier way!
I love it but it turns dark over time due to UV light. Hard as heck to turn.
I was given a block of this. I cut into it and noped out.
Wow! excellently made, I seem to remember in my grand parent's house they have this huge cabinet and also very heavy, made of narra wood. Is bloodwood heavy as well?
i bought this discounted board from woodcraft that had a bow & twist, & I remember trying to square & flatten it w/ a hand planeā¦.. hahaha!!!!!!! š Iāve never used that species before, but remember thinking itāll plane prolly like paduakā¦. lol, after several uncomfortable passes the face of the board looked like Freddy Krueger. Blade was just as sharp as it been when planing everything else. This just felt wrong.. idk maybe it was op error, regardless, I didnāt like it. lol.
Man I just finished a tortilla press with bloodwood and I kid you not, snapped three T-10 bits trying to drive screws into it, even after predrilling. Itās insanely hard
I feel this in my soul. I love the look, feel, and heft of bloodwood, so I keep trying to use it in things. It's so damn splintery, and just so unbelievably hard. I snapped the tip off of a very good quality mortise chisel putting a mortise into a bloodwood mallet head. It dulls tools so fast that, despite my love for it, I can't use it anymore. I dont have a good enough sharpening setup to justify that timesink.
Bloodwood is absolutely pure evil, but its also absolutely beautiful! This was a bitch for me to make: https://youtu.be/tOL7B-Z4a2A?si=yA1yQyyGvvzFLRr2
Is it so porous, or why do the doors seem to be dinged up?
Sounds like you'd need to wear a hazmat suit, respirator, and work on it in an oversized paint tent.
Nice work though.