Jr Gents Set Purple Heart

[billyb_imp]

This mornings effort a pair of Jr Gents in purple heart, the one on the left already going brown

 

[brody2123]

Very tidy mate!! Purpleheart is a fickle mistress ain't she?

 

[bassethound]

Well turned mate, you can't help what the wood does!

 

[paulm]

Nicely turned and finished pens there, its a shame about Purple Heart, there must be some secret to keeping it purple as I've got some that are still a lovely deep purple after a 18 months or so and others go patchy.

 

[PhillH]

Strange that, I have a Purpleheart bowl on my desk at work which is now best part of 5 months old and still bright purple, I expected that to have faded by now.

Nice pens all the same, very nicely turned and finished.

 

[Terry]

Lovely pair of pens Billy. I'm busy playing around with P/H on a bowl but unsure on the shape!!! LOL

 

[chas_41_uk]

Lovely pair of pens Billy

 

[Grump]

They looks pretty cool to me Billy and the pics don't bad neiver init?

 

[Woody]

Very nice Billy very well turned and finished good on yu

 

[Kardav]

Whoooo! You've got a nice pair there Billy, very nice.

 

[Buckeye]

A couple of nice pens, it strange that one piece is going brown and the other stay purple.

Peter

 

[yorkshireman]

You've made a good job of them Billy

 

[billyb_imp]

A couple of nice pens, it strange that one piece is going brown and the other stay purple.

Peter

Its annoying, I cant really show them to potential buyers as a set of pens, the difference in colour is even more obvious to the naked eye

 

[Buckeye]

Well you could say you have made them slightly different colours so you know which is which. All the purpleheart I have done has been really purple except the very first pen I turned on an Axminster course, it was brown when finished.

Peter

 

[Goulss]

Very nice couple mate, I hesitate to say set, could you maybe turn a contrasting pair and sell them as a duo set?

 

[Jim]

Very nice set Billy, P/H makes lovely pens indeed ..

 

[angelo49]

Nicely done.
But like everyone says, Purpleheart is very unpredictable.

 

[silver]

Nice couple of pens there Billy

 

[Woody]

You can turn P/H brown when turning to much bevel rub heat build up sanding to long especially with the finer grits again heat build up can turn it brown that's why a lot of newbies have this problem with it so stay cool dude

 

[billyb_imp]

You can turn P/H brown when turning to much bevel rub heat build up sanding to long especially with the finer grits again heat build up can turn it brown that's why a lot of newbies have this problem with it so stay cool dude

Thanks for that advice woody, will note it down somewhere in brain, hopefully it will come back to me again when I need it