Morado

Morado is known by many names. Pau Ferro, Bolivian Rosewood and Morado are the most common. Color can be highly varied, ranging from reddish/orange to a dark violet/brown, usually with contrasting darker black streaks. Narrow sapwood is a pale yellow Very strong, stiff, hard & tough timber. Morado is considered overall to be of fair workability, as it can blunt the cutting edges of tools, and any irregular grain has a tendency to tearout during machining operations. Many of the same challenges in gluing rosewoods are common to Morado as well. Morado turns and finishes well.