I made a few boxes with dragons on them. I got this tip from trning older woodworker that has been doing this for years. Purple Heart and Hickory Name Plate. They looked so good. Though most woods change colour due to UV rays, some such as Lignum Vitae change due to contact with oxygen. My purple heart wood for turning yellow and I made a Hat Box military Chief thing out of purple heart, paduk and ash with a few slivers of zebra wood. We've also compared the number to that of red oak, as red oak is the most commonly used hardwood in North America.

I have been trying to figure out how to make my drawer fronts and know they will have to be out of solid wood with routering detail.

I have gone with a mitre instead of the shaker style. Could someone … Read more ». Matt Culler, you can bite my fucking ass! Found a local guy , Don Mitchell, BC Canada at a farmers market, My wife saw a beautiful jewelry box he had made it was the first time we had ever seen this wood, the box is exquisite.

He made it out of different tropical woods but the Purple Heart made it a very beautiful anniversary gift. Draconacae Draconus Acerphyla. The Maple-Leaf Dragon. I made a few boxes with dragons on them. One of my classmates from high school wanted one. Hope you like it! Although severe reactions are quite uncommon, Purpleheart has been reported as a sensitizer. Did you make your own veneer slices? Was curious if it gums up trying to make thin slices. Also was wondering if glues well?

Your input would be very appreciated. An excellent wood for small finishes. GWR found long, 2mm thick strips of purpleheart in a skip, apparently as packing for another hardwood to be used for decking.

For drawer faces it is superb. Probably a very bad idea. What suggestions do you have for how to best protect the Wood? Occasionally rubbing it with some kind of oil? Short answer: NO!! My answer would be from my experience in handling it for inlays. Countersink as well. Keep screws at least 1. Does anyone have suggestions for the best types of tools to use while working with purpleheart? I am trying to split a 7 inch piece into a 3 inch piece. My daughter gave me a purple heart board to work with.

Though the wood is extremely pretty, it is one of the most difficult to work with. At times when working cutting into the work with my chip carving knife it sounds like cutting into metal. My actual times to complete a project expanded from 3 to 4 times the effort compared to the same project on Bass Wood or Tupelo. I have other wood carver friends that refuse to work with Purple Heart because of the extra effort involved.

I personally … Read more ». Skip to content. Purpleheart Peltogyne spp. Related Species: None available. Purpleheart freshly sanded Purpleheart three weeks later Purpleheart sealed Purpleheart endgrain Purpleheart endgrain 10x Purpleheart fininshed Purpleheart turned. Notify of. I give permission to use my email address to send notifications about new comments and replies you can unsubscribe at any time. Inline Feedbacks. John J. Reply to John J.

I have some pieces of Purpleheart that react extremely different under UV light. Ethan Diefenbach. Reply to Daniel. Yes, I found that it actually takes a woodburn quite nicely.

Melanie Silkett. My favorite wood… I use it sparingly due to price. But use every scrap! Nicholas Vitale. Reply to Melanie Silkett. Nicolas described this work as beautiful. It certainly is!? Random Boring Hobbyist. Reply to Jens. Sean C. Reply to Random Boring Hobbyist. All I know is the wood has to be sealed to protect from the UV light.

Reply to Sean C. Chuck Setzco. Cameron Stephens. Reply to J. J Swarts. Reply to Nathan. Joey Tripp Nimmo. Purple hart pen I made. Myron Leski. Reply to Myron Leski. Jim Sager. John Brightwell.

Reply to Jim Sager. John Rice. Will Fisher. Purple Heart and Hickory Name Plate. Gloss Lacquer finish. Arnaldo Uliana. Emilio Diaz. Reply to Arnaldo Uliana. Peter Diotte. Kevin Wendel. Terry-Cowboy Brown. Reply to t4ngent. I have a Telecaster built with purpleheart.

I love it! Matt Culler. Reply to Terry-Cowboy Brown. Reply to Matt Culler. Reply to tobias smit. Mark Myers. Reply to Mark Myers. That is unreal , how large is it, Cost, E mail tobiassmit hotmail. Cristiano Ronaldo. Outside The Box Woodworking. These methods would prevent deterioration only from oxidation and to a little extent against UV light.

I want a wooden one. I want to feel the texture and see it age and develop a patina over time and use. I see this issue as related. Yes, my purpleheart pen will fade to a dark aubergine over time. All the more reason to treasure it now. I much agree, I love watching a patina develop over time much like on a small copper torch I have on my keys. Boil the wood in parrafine and will last forever and still feel like wood. Its dangerous to play with boiling parrafine thogh and you must know what your doing.

Oooh, well said.. And beautiful analogy. Thank you. Chemist here, look into the various additives used in Museum restoration waxes and coatings, typically in two general catagories: UV absorbers: hydroxybenzophenone or hydroxyphenylbenzotriazole HALS: hindered amine light stabilizers, which trap the breakdown products free radicals, reactive oxygen from UV exposure.

This is why buried cables have metallic layers which can to stop them filling with water. Clear moisture-and-gas-blocking alternatives include silica glasses and diamond but these are hardly practical. But I think that all preventable that is surface darkening effects are actually about blocking light, especially uv, and coatings can block this. I do not especially see why tougher-seeming coatings like acrylic might be more effective, except that … Read more ».

They are very commonly used in marine applicaitons including wood boats. Plenty of stains already contain UV blocking oxides that you mentioned. No not at all! Waterproof for a wood coating just means that the short-term diffusion is small — if they were immersed the water would in time diffuse through, as would Oxygen.

Thus changes in colour over months or years that can be stopped with coatings must in fact be light-, not oxygen-induced. And yes, there are UV-blocking coatings, the question … Read more ». You are exactly right — even a thin metal layer can block gas and water diffusion, hence indeed metallised crisp packets and Helium balloons I remember the very short usage lives of He-filled rubber balloons.

Note that water is actually a very small molecule that diffuses fairly easily — water is only a liquid at room temperature because when in liquid form it forms larger molecular groups. I use glass to keep out moisture. For example, CA glue will set up with moisture and moisture will gradually go through the plastic bottles. I used to store it in a glass jar.

Some years ago I started storing bottles of CA in a canister with a bed of indicator desiccant in the bottom. When the blue desiccant starts to turn pink I heat it to recharge.

The glue lasts much longer this way. The barrier coats they put on fiberglass boats, to keep water molecules from penetrating the gelcoat and forming blisters, have to be applied in several coats. The recommended thickness is up to 10 mil. And this is on a one-piece fiberglass hull. Though most woods change colour due to UV rays, some such as Lignum Vitae change due to contact with oxygen.

Guitar factory worker, here. I can confirm that most issues are due to exposure to light. Mind you. The appeal of cocobolo is in its beautiful grain, not bright colors. If this fades, it would be a huge waste, and no dye will be of any use. Do you suppose a UV blocking deck oil followed by UV blocking epoxy finish would keep cocobolo looking good? Hi, I just want to comment on a few replacements forforperson some of those evil red looking woods, like redheart and cocobolo. I would suggest using either red cedar heartwood, which, when finished, looks anywhere from a deep red, to a lighter purple-red.

I also would suggest the red cedar heartwood for a replacement with some purple woods, too. The other wood that I would suggest is plum. Plum can have beautiful red streaks in it, however, not always, but is one of my personal favorites to work with. A few hints, re black wood: 1. African Wenge Milettia laurentii , … Read more ». Beyond this finding: I believe that a frank note, attached to the piece you are gifting or selling, about how wood coloration fades is a best practice that will actually set your company or activity apart from the competition.

As to further helping marketing, the following appears to me in my research and experimentation: Best practice is to compare the problem explicitly to … Read more ».

Thanks, James, though I am saddened to learn the reality about box elder in particular. I do suspect, though, that the various articles and blog items to which I referred around the net are accurate. If so, and I also have some of my own experience more in a moment , I stand by the numbered techniques I offered earlier. I would be interested … Read more ». Well, the LOL is on me, as what you thought was a horse head was actually a dragon head waterhorse, perhaps!

Best to you, James! Years ago at the wood store I worked at a customer made a really nice pair of horse-head bookends, out of butternut…. I think I had that image in my mind, when I was looking at your…ahem.. You have to experiment with a lot of substances to find out. Bus as an example purple hart turns hot pink when washed with muriatic acid.

Take notes of times and percentages in distilled water, then age the test pieces in thew sun, with and without different varnishes. The PH of the wood and therefore its colors may change just because you have not tested the substances you put on them. Even your sweat can interfere. There are antique pieces that still … Read more ».

I am curious if beeswax might help keep the purple in the purpleheart wood? I like to make lucets and in Medieval times they would use melted beeswax to treat their wood objects, drinking vessels, bowls, etc. I have used beeswax before and had good results, though it takes some use before the wax feels good to the touch. It does give wood a nice waterproof and slightly shiny sheen with use. It does go a shade or two darker in the process though.

So I am curious what you think? Thanks greatly, AC. Thanks, AC. Old yew lutes from the 17th century have turned from pink to a warm golden brown: it takes a certain time but exposure to direct sunlight will quicken the process in only a couple of years. Black locust turns from a light golden color to a deep chocolate brown not only when exposed to UV but even when slightly heated sun, iron, steam etc. Rotary cut black locust is only sold in deep brown , since the logs are steamed. My father and I made a Hat Box military Chief thing out of purple heart, paduk and ash with a few slivers of zebra wood.

For about a year. Now four years later the box is brown on brown with pretty ash and zebra wood being the only elements that endured. I should have saved a ton of money, bought regular hard wood and stained it the pretty colors. Thanks for the info especially since I use the natural color of wood for a lot of the work I do. I will have to disagree somewhat regarding blue mahoe being cool grey and not blue. Years ago, I worked at a wood store, where we offered planing service…guy walks in, asks me to plane a board…I do so, it comes out the other end, in various shades of steel blue, green, brown and gray at this point my knees are shaking!

What kind of UV inhibiting finishes would you suggest I use? I am building several furnitures for my house using poplar. I would like to keep the wood light and natural, almost white maybe even do a water-based white wash. What kind of clear coating should I use that will not turn yellowish and will keep the green color as long as possible? I used to use a product called Behr Tung oil, which had uvi inhibitors; what I found is that the colour change in the Y. Examples, water-based finishes tend to … Read more ».

Hi Roman…I just noticed your pictures… …athough I have read the above article a few times previous. Those are some nice plaques you have done there… Are you involved with Olympic Rowing in some way? I have been fairly interested in the sport from a young age as a result. Afraid I seem to be in a minority in that. Will Wood stabilizer preserve coloration, such as with boxelder. I really need to permanently preserve that red and yellow. Must I encase it in resin? That post on using Son of a gun dashboard spray?

One more question: Will a decades-dead boxelder tree keep its red spalting on the yellow pulp due to no sun penetrating the tree? I ask this to determine whether to fell some that I have identified, and I do not want to take on useless work to fell a tree that, being dead decades, is likely to have grayed out pulp.

Padauk] where you want the colour to remain…. Now THAT makes me sad! So the Armor All dashboard trick is bogus or brief in its effect? Is the only method that helps keep the red other than keeping it in the dark the technique of meticulously painting the red with some sort of dye or red stain so that the natural fades but the artificial remains?

I got this tip from an older woodworker that has been doing this for years. You can also use head to change the color of purpleheart to what you want and then seal it. I would give it a try. I think it would even work with other woods.

Try baking at degrees for 30 minutes. Use foil to catch resin drips. Also, makes a stink. Heat sets the color. African Sumac pulls an interesting trick. The wood has a very light creamy colored sapwood and some reddish tint to the heartwood when you first cut it. But, leave it out in the sun and it all turns a really pretty ruddy red color and seems to retain that color very well. Takes stain well enough on a test piece but give it a sun tan and a clear finish over the top.

Fairly soft if I had to venture a … Read more ». Hi curly and others. Sorry I forgot to respond. It worked great worth Purpleheart. Even with the CA finish on the pen, after a few days in the sun it turned from brown to a brilliant purple. Great trick. I was hoping Simon would report back on his experience with CA stopping color change on the Purpleheart…. Eric, the Wood-Database is very helpful and informative online asset. I stripped the granadilla and rubbed it with tung oil.

It seamed to cure better, so I rubbed in three seperate coats. I did a very gentle sanding with g and then rubbed in a beeswax wood conditioner. I couldnt be happier with the results! Maybe the tung oil seals in the oils and doesnt allow it to react to subsequent coats of varnish? In my experience, it will never dry. In my case, I had to strip off the tacky finish and try again. I surmise that the oil s in the wood interfere with the curing process of the finish, and prevent it from setting up properly.

I found that one … Read more ». Im having trouble with spar urythane drying completely on granadilla and padauk. It just stays tacky.

I coated some acacia with the same spar at the same time and it dried nicely. Does it take longer to dry on the other woods? Will it ever dry completely? Jay, I just finished a long overdue article on finishing exotic woods. For once something goes right in wood color shifting….

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