Purple Heart

Put it in direct sunlight and it’ll come right back. And yes, a finish will cause the color to return much more slowly.

Also bear in mind that eventually that purple color will fade.

Edit: Misread that. Its UV that causes the color change IIRC.

-- Dylan Vanderhoof - New woodworker in training. =)

Someone posted a link to research on Purple heart coloring, and they deduced that HEAT also plays an important part. Heat the wood to 400’ degree’s and it will give it a deep/rich purple coloring.

You might be able to find the link in one of the other forum discussions.

-- When my wife ask's what I have to show for my wood working hobby, I just show her the splinters.

Thanks guys, I must be getting lazy or senile, I never thought about doing a search on LJ – I found the ´same question posted 2 weeks ago.

The link to the study Vs heat is http://www.organicsculpture.com/Purpleheart.html.

Again thanks again from a lazy LJ

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hey tony…is this the purple heart you bought when you were here in January??? What are you going to make—-I recall it was a smaller piece—-so obviously not furniture…

Good luck with it..

Sorry to hear of approaching winter…in Napa…it is 105F today!!!!!!!!!!!! We are experiencing a mini-heat wave…so the idea of winter sounds real nice right now…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...119 days to sanity...

I left a piece of Purpleheart out in the sunlight for the past three months and the side exposed to the Sun never got anymore purple than the back side of the board . I also tried “baking ” some of it with no positive results either : ( I still haven’t found a way to restore the color of it yet and Purpleheart baked goods aren’t much in demand around these parts : ) Best wishes to you and let me know if anything works for you : )

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Matt

Matt. The PH is being used for for some inlay.

Placing the completed project outside in the sunlight is not really an option (even in hot dry weather, too much humidity).

I have had the PH in my wood store (inside) with no natural light and the freshly jointed surfaces still go purple after time (months) which tends to support oxidisation theory.

I guess I will not get the deep purple colour I wanted for the presentation, I will just have to explain to the customer, it will change of the next weeks.

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