My Purpleheart TM2 arrived today, very quickly too to the Northeast. It’s beautiful yet darker than the pictures I’ve seen. It’s cloudy here today and my home office isn’t swathed in lots of light either. It doesn’t quite strike me like I thought it would and thought it could be the dark walnut though the order confirm email says “Purpleheart”.
Oh, sorry, you may have mentioned it previously, but reminder that naturally it is not always that purple, remember how the early teases looked so red? I've seen variations that were more red as well as variations that were more purple, however, they often fade to a brown color over time, so especially be careful with the sunlight, that has the stuff that turns it brown... Of course lighting etc and just general variation, hopefully you can bring out the red, because I know that's what you always really wanted, but I'm sure you will enjoy all the other improvements as well!
Good on y’all for snagging those new ones, but I’ll hold out for African Blackwood.
I'm not sure that would ever be a reality, I don't think it is a good choice for this application personally based on my experience, it can be much more resinous than other woods even though it is quite dense, although I kind of feel like that is a negative too, I think it would not dissipate the heat as well, becoming quite hot, and possibly the problem with the resin leaking etc... However there are plenty of other black woods that are not called blackwood, I think those would be much better options (in the past they did try to do a dark stained oak model for the dark black effect, not sure they ever really came to fruition though with any in the wild? Some have taken the time to stain and dye their own would themselves to varying degrees of success though) there are actually very dark species of walnut... Black walnut is not typically black wood however lol
PS I would really like to learn how to upload photos. I have not been able to do this on my own.
so true! gorgeous trio. it did take me about 10 min to realize where you were seeing the picture
@Dr. G pic:
Oh! Not sure where you saw that originally either as I was also missing it in that post haha looks good now Dr G! Yeah you have to upload to another image hosting site, share the link, or better yet the BB code to paste inline here (sometimes the insert image tool can work if you paste the link there) it is such a shame we don't have image hosting here on FC, there was a brief period when we did, and it was very nice! Rusty knows