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One of my step daughters got a good job with the county about 2 months ago and asked me to make her a name plate for her desk. A few eye battings later and I could only say "OK".
This is not done yet. But it's far enough along to show it here.
The name plate is purple heart. I scroll sawed it then added hand carved touches to the lettering a couple of weeks ago. Another week or so and the purple should be vibrant enough to lacquer. When you cut or sand purple heart, the freshly-exposed surfaces are an ugly peach pit color. It takes time for it to oxidize to the beautiful purple hue.
Here's what it looked like fresh.
And after about two weeks of air and light exposure, notice how much richer the color has become. The lighting is the same in this and the previous picture. Here I'm setting the TS blade for a pleasing viewing angle.
The stand (onto which it will be glued) is hard maple. These parts are not yet attached.
On the back side - facing herself - she requested a certain Bible verse to be displayed. So I'm going to carve the lettering into the maple. Then I'll paint the lettering black for high contrast.
This is not done yet. But it's far enough along to show it here.
The name plate is purple heart. I scroll sawed it then added hand carved touches to the lettering a couple of weeks ago. Another week or so and the purple should be vibrant enough to lacquer. When you cut or sand purple heart, the freshly-exposed surfaces are an ugly peach pit color. It takes time for it to oxidize to the beautiful purple hue.
Here's what it looked like fresh.

And after about two weeks of air and light exposure, notice how much richer the color has become. The lighting is the same in this and the previous picture. Here I'm setting the TS blade for a pleasing viewing angle.

The stand (onto which it will be glued) is hard maple. These parts are not yet attached.


On the back side - facing herself - she requested a certain Bible verse to be displayed. So I'm going to carve the lettering into the maple. Then I'll paint the lettering black for high contrast.
