Purple heart is so loaded with silica any moisture is swamped.

I broke the line on the glued up handle I made for a fancy handle file.
Glue held only 25% of the edge. It is tricky stuff. I want to say I
used thinner to dissolve the oil but might have just pushed it around...

Martin

On 5/21/2013 12:12 AM, Mac Davis wrote:
On Mon, 20 May 2013 07:12:52 -0700, Ralph E Lindberg
wrote:

snip
It's not unusual for some commercial wood processing places to just dump
them in and coat everything, takes less time then just the ends

I think so... Less time to process and less complaints of cracked
blanks when delivered...

I dug out a purpleheart blank that I'd bought for one of my students
almost 2 years ago... Didn't use a scale, but it feels the same weight
as when it got here....
Scraping time tomorrow on 6 or 7 blanks...