Last year I built a cherry chest for our bedroom. It has darkened pretty much like it should.
Today I was digging through my cutoff bin, looking for some scrap ash; the bin is in a basement corner, under a shelf. It gets no sunlight, and very little light of any kind.
I found some cutoffs from the chest that are the exact same color as the chest. Explain that.
As a result of a naturally occurring chemical reaction. All cherry needs is oxygen and time.
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No need to explain if you'd studied wood. Aging is merely accelerated by high-energy UV, not cause by it, and can be accomplished by using a chemical reaction - e.g. lye - to do the same.
After a period of time you'll end up with deep aging, where the inside of the board has pretty much the same color as the surface. Takes ten/twelve years, but I've got some #1 common I bought 20 years ago for $250 MBF that's red through and through. Works a bit more brittle, though.
Explanation: scrap bin not air tight.
Brian.
...(wrt to cherry)...
It's all of those and more... :)
I will look forward to your results. People say it is light, it is air, it is magic...
(Cue Twilight Zone theme...)
"toller" wrote in news:y_gAd.1228$ snipped-for-privacy@news01.roc.ny:
Cherry is magic itself. And working with good cherry for furniture is so much better than many other common woods that it's almost like cheating.
Patriarch, a Californian who pays a premium when he buys cherry...
Think of it as rust.
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