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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