The Most Expensive Woods in the World
826K views · Oct 17, 2025 · Entertainment
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@Stanley-xd1gf · 1 month ago
I am Brazilian, and eleven years ago I bought a small rural property with the goal of preserving a small patch of Atlantic Forest that borders the back of my house—a place teeming with birds like toucans and many others. The site was the original headquarters of a farm, and much of the wood in the old house is Ipê, Jacarandá, and Roxinho (purpleheart). The planter box in front of the house used to be an animal watering trough, and—believe it or not—it is made of Jacarandá. I still have about eight living Jacarandá trees, and I take very good care of them. Best regards to everyone.
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@AlchemistRacing · 11 months ago (edited)
Me, a guy who hasn’t touched my wood lathe in over a decade “why yes I would love to spend over an hour learning about exotic woods for potential projects”
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@TwinTurboZach · 11 months ago
It would have been REALLY cool if you included images of what the trees look like with these!
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@EuRaphaelLeite · 9 months ago
The interesting part of Brazilian rosewood is that sometimes I find old headboards in the streets cuz someone died and the family had no idea and throw the bed away (I live in Brazil and there’s a lot of furniture made of this wood around here).
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@paulcaron-wm4tk · 11 months ago
Dude! I have a board of Brazilian Rosewood, the most fragrant grade, sit down for this, 38"long, 12 3/4" wide 1 1/4 thick. It came to me from a friend who was tired of facing the same dilemma: it's illegal to sell, it's absolutely precious and I don't dare to cut it. My friend got it in the 1970's from an old Italian woodworker named Tom Rizuto, who was retired and spent several years holding court in his shop in Asheville, North Carolina. He didn't really want to sell anything, but if you hung around listening to his stories long enough, you could talk him into letting go of something. Except for his prized possessions, a collection of 6 life sized wooden statues of Popes from history. I hope those are in a museum somewhere. Anyway I have made a base for my rosewood plank and it serves as my bedside table. I am thinking of leaving it to a young friend who is a luthier. Let him worry over it for a few more decades.😂
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@pierrebernier230 · 11 months ago
Purple wood is often used in wooden boat building for it's hardness, rot resistant property and very high compression resistance.<br>I often use it in mast step, butt blocks, keel, and many other structural application.<br>it's quite heavy as well.
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@MatthewHarrold · 11 months ago
I'm in Tasmania, I have a few pieces of Tiger Myrtle, some Huon Pine salvaged from antique furniture, and Blackheart Sassafrass with insane spalting. I have 4 Huon Pine trees growing on my property that I planted. In around 600 years, someone is going to make bank on them.
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@somedudeRyan · 11 months ago
The dumpster at any old house/building renovation has some of the most beautiful old growth wood that just goes to waste
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@markwrightakalefty · 11 months ago
One of them subjects the more you learn the more you realise you don’t know
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@11202 · 10 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ssmjREPwNo&t=641">10:41</a> Making a box out of jarrah is truly a stroke of irony because well… most military personnel’s medal boxes are made of it.
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@AndrewHall-h5m · 11 months ago
I’ve got a gorgeous piece of pine in my workshop. It’s not big enough to make anything with but it’s certainly a flex when someone enters my workshop. That and my Black and decker drill.
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@MrZaku-rh4qt · 10 months ago
As a forestry student, I absolutely love learning about woods and their unique structures.<br><br>Seeing these large premium wood trees in the wild whenever we do field research makes me excited because of how rare they are.
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