Getting my kids involved in the shop to make Xmas gifts for SWMBO
(Mom). I'm simplifying plans I saw for a desk clock and we're making
a matching pencil can that will have keyed miters. The main wood is
clear, straight maple (no crazy grain for kids' first project). The
keys and the hour markers on the clock will be purpleheart (the kids
picked it out at the lumberyard reminding me that her favorite color
is purple).

Never having worked with PH before, what can we do to preserve or even
enhance the color a little? Will a straight oil deepen the color?
What about using the end grain? Dyeing or "cheating" the color goes
against my grain (pun intended) but is that something to consider?
Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance from a newby and his novice
kids.