One more case for baking Purpleheart
TLDR- Baking Purpleheart will bake the purple color all the way through the board and will stay purple for much longer.
Here’s the explanation of the image:
Image 1: I took a lovely piece of purpleheart down off my wood rack and ran it through the jointer. Image 1 shows how that board looked after one pass on the jointer. The left half is where the jointer exposed fresh wood, and the right half of the board was untouched (how it looked off the shelf). I often hear the argument that you can just leave purpleheart out in the sun to turn purple, but you can see here that this only goes so deep.
Image 2: this is the exact same board, with no alterations, after having been baked for an hour. You can see the left side of the board has taken on a dark purple color.
Image 3: this is now that exact same board after having been jointed and planed down to thickness. And here you can see that the purple has gone all the way through. Planing the board does not reveal fresh wood that is dingy because baking the purpleheart brings out that purple color all the way down to the core.
TLDR- Baking Purpleheart will bake the purple color all the way through the board and will stay purple for much longer.
Here’s the explanation of the image:
Image 1: I took a lovely piece of purpleheart down off my wood rack and ran it through the jointer. Image 1 shows how that board looked after one pass on the jointer. The left half is where the jointer exposed fresh wood, and the right half of the board was untouched (how it looked off the shelf). I often hear the argument that you can just leave purpleheart out in the sun to turn purple, but you can see here that this only goes so deep.
Image 2: this is the exact same board, with no alterations, after having been baked for an hour. You can see the left side of the board has taken on a dark purple color.
Image 3: this is now that exact same board after having been jointed and planed down to thickness. And here you can see that the purple has gone all the way through. Planing the board does not reveal fresh wood that is dingy because baking the purpleheart brings out that purple color all the way down to the core.