"Enoch Root" wrote in message
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I got a slab of 8/4 purpleheart, and after a few weeks of sitting there
I notice there's a lot of splitting especially on one end. I have it in
a cool dry environment at a fairly stable temperature.

Is this normal for purpleheart? Does it often split and check at the end?

I'm going to lose (I think) around a third of this board.

Don't know anything about purpleheart, sorry.
I had a large piece of mahogany, one third of it was split. I cut the split
part off, and glued the two split parts together. Good as new.
Might not be applicable to you if you have multiple splits.