Brazilian Bloodwood – Sawn – 3 sizes

Cut these brazilian bloodwood boards and the name explains itself. Brazilian Bloodwood opens a deep, saturated red that darkens further with light and age — one of the most intensely coloured timbers that comes through the yard. It’s a limited parcel, while stocks last.

What it is. Brazilian Bloodwood is the trade name for Brosimum rubescens, also known as Satiné in parts of the trade — a dense South American hardwood grown mainly in Brazil and the wider Amazon basin. It’s one of the hardest and heaviest cabinet timbers in regular circulation.

What you’d make with these brazilian bloodwood boards.

• Feature strips and accent panels against paler timbers
• Cutting boards and charcuterie boards
• Knife handle scales and small furniture inlays
• Fine marquetry and banding

Working notes

• Density: ~1,050 kg/m³ — very dense
• Hardness: ~13 kN Janka — among the hardest timbers TT carries
• Grain: fine, straight and tight — takes a mirror finish under abrasives alone
• Surface: Supplied rough-sawn — dress one face true before templating or glue-up.
• Working: hard on edges — carbide tooling recommended; pre-drill for screws
• Finishing: polishes to a deep gloss with Shellawax; oil alone brings the red forward without a film build

What cabinetmakers say about it. Knife makers on the trade forums rate Bloodwood for handle scales specifically because the density that makes it hard to machine also makes it resist dents in daily use.

The stack it came from. These brazilian bloodwood boards are old stock — they sat in the back of the shed for many years before we recovered them and got them ready to sell — this is a limited parcel across three sizes. Browse the rest of our Brazilian Bloodwood stock or the wider sawn timber range. Once it goes, the listing closes.