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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Not all Purpleheart does that, it happens more with veneer because it's boiled in the proccess of cutting. Some retain a bluish chocolate hue.
The worst offender, the one that broke my hopes was Padauk. It turned from a bright orange to a dark chocolate brown. What a deception!
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To be honest, I've never really worked with veneers, I have quite a bunch. I had a habit of buying 'variety' packs to see and have a wide range of choices but I never really used it.
My biggest problem with Padauk is it dulled my tools faster then nearly anything else I have used. Not to mention all that silica actually winds up shooting sparks when I saw or sand it... Kind of funny seeing that when working with wood! Mind you, I've only worked with it on small scale, like little pen turnings and small carved pieces.
The worst for me was trying to resaw a piece of black palm, I burned up a good saw blade as the resin gummed it up almost instantly and overheated the blade. It also took me over an hour to air out the shop, it looked like I was burning black powder in there!
BTW I thought there was one tree that retained a green shade, began with a V perhaps?
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Here is a site featuring wood species, it's pretty accurate.
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Thanks! I bookmarked that. Have you ever seen the Hobbit House's wood picture site? He likewise tries to post only colour accurate photos.
http://hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/
-MJ