On 2/24/2018 11:06 AM, Jack wrote:
On 2/23/2018 1:41 PM, Leon wrote:
On 2/23/2018 11:22 AM, Jack wrote:
On 2/23/2018 11:59 AM, Leon wrote:
On 2/23/2018 9:44 AM, Jack wrote:
On 2/21/2018 5:07 PM, wrote:
On Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 10:48:52 AM UTC-5, dustyone wrote:
Hello all,


Question:

Does all wood darken with age?Â* Cherry, of course, is an example of
such a species.Â* Do other woods behave in the same way?Â* One would
think that most color would fade with exposure to light, and that
cherry is an anomaly.

Curt Blood
Hartford, CT

I want to buy a beautiful Queen Anne table that the owner says is
cherry.Â* I leaf is clearly darker, presumably because it was stored.
I was hoping to put it in the sun to let it lighten up so it will
match.Â* Any thoughts on what I can do to get it to lighten up?

Cherry will not get lighter.Â* In fact, now that you mention it, I
don't recall ever seeing wood get lighter with exposure to light,
usually light wood turns gray, and dark wood get darker. I don't have
experience with all 60,000 species of wood, so one can't be sure.Â* My
best guess is the leaf was exposed to sun, and the table wasn't.
Seems strange as normally it would be the other way around.Â* Possibly
the leaf is different wood from the rest.

Walnut absolutely lightens with exposure to light.
I'm sitting here looking at a walnut pencil holder I made 40+ years
ago and it's if anything darker than when I made it. How long should I
wait for it to get lighter?Â* Same with my cutting boards also 40+
years old, the walnut is definitely not lighter than when made.

Indirect sunlight and or a finish can slow the process.Â* You will
probably have no issue.

BUT.Â* If you believe anything from the internet or FWW,

http://forums.finewoodworking.com/fi...and-why-bother


It's Pennsylvania walnut though, not Texas walnut.Â* Also not sitting
outside in direct sunlight and weather so who knows what that would
do?Â*Â* Generally direct sunlight might fade colored wood into grayish,
but don't recall any wood getting lighter from exposure.

Wood that is exposed to a lot of UV will turn grey, even walnut.Â* On its
way to turning grey, it lightens.
Swingman and our wives were in Arkansas about 10 years ago and were
looking for wood.Â* We ran across a guy with a band saw sawmill that was
selling fence posts.Â* $4 each IIRC and they were all grey like a typical
fence post.Â* They had been stored and dried outside.

These posts were walnut and until he planed the faded side we would
never have believed that.Â* We left Arkansas with a pick up load of grey
walnut fence posts.Â* $74.

I was wrong.Â* Walnut does lighten with age.Â* I looked at the bottom of
my pencil holder and it is definitely darker than the exposed part.
Mea culpa.

No problem Jack, Time plays tricks on everyone's memory.
One memory deception that has always confounded me is when I see some
thing from my childhood, many years later, is how much smaller it looks now.
When I was in elementary school I thought the campus was HUGE.

When I revisited about 40 years later it was tiny. LOL