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Padauk

  • Appearance: Padauk has a vibrant, deep reddish-pink color that darkens to a rich burgundy over time, featuring a coarse grain and striking appearance always.
  • Workability: Padauk is challenging to work with due to its hardness and density, requiring sharp tools and careful handling to avoid damage and ensure precision.
  • Use: Used for high-end furniture, woodturning, and decorative items, valued for its stunning color and durability in various applications always.
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Working with Padauk

Advantages: Offers exceptional aesthetic appeal, durability, and resistance to wear, making it ideal for projects requiring visual impact and longevity.

Disadvantages: Can be difficult to work with, expensive, and may bleed or lose color over time if not properly sealed or finished carefully.

Available Thickness and Widths of Padauk Lumber
Choose 4/4 (1") boards 4–6" wide or 8/4 (2") boards 4–6" or 6–8" wide, in 24" or 48" lengths, surfaced two sides (S2S) or four sides (S4S). Custom lengths and surfacing are available on request.

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Common Questions and Facts on Padauk

Padauk: Color, Grain and Woodworking Applications

Shopping from the United States? This Padauk collection isn't currently available for shipping to the U.S.

Padauk is recognizable for its vibrant red-to-orange coloring and open grain. It offers a strong contrast to pale Maple, Ash and other light-colored woods in small projects or decorative components.

How Padauk Looks

Freshly worked surfaces can look brighter than aged or finished wood, so evaluate the color with the intended finish rather than assuming the initial red will remain unchanged. Its visible grain brings texture as well as color.

What Can You Make With Padauk?

Padauk makes striking box accents, turned objects, small furniture details and decorative combinations. It can be particularly effective when used selectively rather than across every surface of a project.

  • Contrasting inlays and trim
  • Boxes and small furniture details
  • Turned objects and handles
  • Decorative strips and project stock

Machining and Preparing Padauk

Padauk can be dense and sometimes challenging to machine. Use sharp blades and careful feed rates to avoid tear-out around changes in grain. Test sanding and dust removal on an offcut before finishing; colorful wood dust can affect adjacent materials.

Finishing Padauk

Some finishes deepen or darken the appearance, and color may change with light exposure. Make a sample with the actual finishing product, especially when combining Padauk with pale hardwoods that could show transferred sanding dust.

Choosing Padauk Stock for a Project

The Canadian assortment currently includes 4/4 and 8/4 boards and five-packs as well as specialty project formats. Verify dimensions and surfacing on the individual product pages, then plan your cut list with sufficient allowance for trimming and grain matching.

When comparing boards and packs, check each product's listed thickness, actual dimensions and preparation. Plan the finished cut list before ordering, and leave a sensible allowance for trimming, surfacing and grain matching. Product photographs illustrate the character of the species; natural grain and color vary between individual boards.

U.S. Product Availability

If you need this species for a project, confirm cross-border availability with our team rather than assuming a Canadian listing can be shipped to the United States. Other hardwood species are listed separately in the U.S. market.

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