Unique Wood Grain Selection at Ravenwood Woodworks
​Explore our exquisite collection of accessories crafted from unique wood grain. Each piece is designed to highlight the wood's natural charm and beauty, creating a one-of-a-kind addition to your home or office. At Ravenwood Woodworks, we ensure our products are sustainably sourced and expertly crafted, offering you a blend of exceptional craftsmanship and environmental responsibility. Discover the perfect piece made from unique wood grain today.
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Purple Heart
Black Walnut
The heartwood is light brown to dark chocolate brown and may display a purplish cast and darker streaks. Black walnut sapwood is the pale yellow-white outer layer of the tree, contrasting sharply with the dark heartwood. American black walnut is considered the most valuable wood native to North America. It machines nicely and finishes beautifully. Origin: North America
Bolivian Rosewood
Bolivian Rosewood is an exotic wood with beautiful, black striping on top of a dark brown background. Bolivian Rosewood undergoes a substantial degree of color change as the wood lightens over time and more so in direct sunlight from the darker brown tones to lighter gold/tan tones. It offers a wide range of colors from medium to light browns through to almost black-brown purplish tones, on top of which there is frequent black striping. Interstinly, Bolivian Rosewood is not a true rosewood, but a highly prized hardwood that serves as a sustainable substitute for the endangered Braziliam Rosewood. Origin: Tropical South America
Jatoba
Jatoba, is also known as Brazilian Cherry. Heartwood varies from a light orangish brown to a darker reddish brown, sometimes with contrasting darker grayish brown streaks. Color tends darken upon exposure to light. Sapwood is a light grayish yellow, clearly demarcated from the heartwood. Jatoba is a dense and durable wood. Origin: Southern Mexico and Central America, through the West Indies & down to South America, including Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.
Maple
The sapwood is most commonly used. The color ranges from nearly white, to an off-white cream color, sometimes a reddish or golden hue. Maple is a great wood to work with. It machines nicely and is easy to finish. Maple comes in many varieties that we plan to explore in our products. Origin: North America, Europe and Asia.
When freshly cut the heartwood of Purpleheart is a dull grayish/purplish brown. Upon exposure the wood becomes a deeper eggplant purple. With further age and exposure to UV light, the wood becomes a dark brown with a hint of purple. Purple heart is a very hard dense wood, causing it to be rough on machines. It sands and finishes beautifully and develops a nice patina over time. Purple heart can come from any one of 23 different species of trees in the genus Peltogyne Origin: Tropical Rainforests of Central and South America.
Wenge
The heartwood is a medium brown, sometimes with a reddish or yellowish hue, with nearly black streaks. Once oiled the wood can become nearly black. Wenge is another hard, very dense wood, making it rough on tools and hand finishing. Once finished, it is clear, why it is worth the effort. Origin: Tropical forests of Central and West Africa.