Purpleheart/Hickory Laminated Hanbo Staff 36" x 1.25" Extra heavy

Hello! Thanks for looking at my site! This listing is for Purpleheart/Hickory laminated  Wooden Hanbo Staffs. The Hanbo Staff is a traditional Okinawan training tool used in Kobudo style martial arts. These particular staffs are 36 inches in length with a uniform thickness of 1.25" making these staffs heavier then a traditional Hanbo.The materials consist of beautiful exotic Purpleheart on either side and a strip of heavy white hickory down the center for added straightness and effect. Hickory is the heaviest available Indigenous North American wood. Purpleheart is a well known exotic hardwood coveted by many martial artists for its beauty, strength, weight, hardness and impact qualities. The laminations of the various woods increases the stability of the wood by having the grain structures reinforce one another. Purpleheart is naturally purple. And it becomes a darker shade of purple overtime. The purpleheart staffs in the pictures are shown both unoiled and oiled as that is the natur