Here’s some insights and perspectives to take into consideration regarding wood colors: The wood is in the process of oxidizing and shifting in color, and it will do so sooner, or it will do so later, but it will still happen. Now, we can play games, and do certain things to slow this progression (see tips below), but just realize: you are only slowing the inevitable. Imagine how differently you’d buy and use woods if you could only see the final color of the wood! The problem arises in that we can only see the initial color of the wood, and have no idea where the settled-in color of the wood will end up. Yes, most woods tend to get darker over time, but it’s not limitless: i.e., all woods do not continue to get darker and darker until they become completely black, they eventually stop at a certain hue/shade this is what I’ll refer to as a wood’s “settled-in” color. Here’s my take on wood color: every piece of wood has a “freshly-cut” color, and also a “settled-in” color. That pink ivory was pink at one time, but the color had faded so gradually, to my delusional eyes it still appeared pink, when in truth, it had become an ugly brown. Amazing, isn’t it!?” The person, with an unbiased (and unimpressed) response said coldly, “but, it’s brown…” And then it hit me. I remember showing someone a section of pink ivory on a project that I had completed several years ago, and said, “Check it out, this is pink ivory. It had already been, like… three whole weeks, and no noticeable change in color had occurred, so what could any further ravages of time possibly do to my wood creations? As it turns out, plenty. Destined for brownĪnd again, in my usual state of delusions, I reckoned that these colors would last forever. Despite reading multiple reports of the color in these exotic woods not lasting-and actually turning dark brown-of course I knew that the rules of the universe didn’t apply to me, and that somehow, I would beat the system.Īnd so I cranked out some amazingly colorful creations with exotic woods, and do you know what? They looked fantastic. I imagined colorful creations that I could make that would endure for years. In my younger, more naive and delusionally-optimistic days of woodworking, I was immediately drawn to the intense colors of padauk, bloodwood, and purpleheart-as many of us are.
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