"Ted" wrote in message
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I turned some wet apple into natural edge bowls. They turned out
great. BUT...

After a few days they started to get some black mold spots. I used
some wood bleach on them and it got rid of the mold spots and whitened
up the sap wood. They looked great. BUT...

Now they have been setting for about a week or so. I went out today
to finish sand them and they all have turned pink. Mostly the sap
wood. Now they don't look so great.

This is the first time I ever used wood bleach. Is there something I
could have done wrong? Is there a way to get rid of the pink color?
Help!!


The pink is probably a combination of chemistry, because the sapwood does
contain the chemicals which color the heartwood, and some leaching of the
extractives in the heartwood along the borders. Only answer I have to the
problem, and it's the same with cherry, walnut and the like, is to dry
things more rapidly. Also helps with the mildew.

Try blasting compressed air through the wood to kick out the maximum amount
of unbound water, and you might shorten the time it takes to get below 18%
moisture by a day or two. Mildew can make a lot of growth in two days.

The two-part wood bleaches are your candidate, but if you get them in the
heartwood, things can get splotchy.