Hello, I am in big trouble, and need your help please!
My eldest daughter has a beautiful piece of purpleheart gidgee bought from up Maleny way. It is about 400 x 100 overall, with bark on the long outer edges. One side is totally deep purple, and the other is deep purple in the centre of the opposite side, in an elliptical shape that followed the elliptical shaped grain on that side. The other grain outside the ellse was greyish -yellow, presumably sapwood.
Tje board had some cracks and a wide end split, so I glued a small 4mm thick floating tenon into the end and across the largest end check, then filled this crack with epoxy toned with black and light purple on the all purple side. Turned out beautifully, can barely see the large crack after it was sanded.
Then turned it over to the other side, and filled the other side of the large crack with some cedar coloured TimberMate, which turned out reasonably well too against the sapwood colouring, although a bit on the lightish side. Did some other thin cracks the same way on that side.
In readiness for oiling this bare timber, and getting rid of what looked like thicknesser chatter marks on the whole surface, I put it through the drum sander. After one pass each side, DISASTER!! Not only were there long scores in the timber from the sander, half the deep purple colour disappeared on both sides, so much so I thought my daughter had been conned and had bought a piece of stained timber. The drum sander used well worn 60 grit, snd these long scratch marks would not come out with 100 grit paper on the ROS.
I am in deep trouble. Can I please get some suggestions on removing these long scratches, and on restoring the deep purple colour if possible?
My eldest daughter has a beautiful piece of purpleheart gidgee bought from up Maleny way. It is about 400 x 100 overall, with bark on the long outer edges. One side is totally deep purple, and the other is deep purple in the centre of the opposite side, in an elliptical shape that followed the elliptical shaped grain on that side. The other grain outside the ellse was greyish -yellow, presumably sapwood.
Tje board had some cracks and a wide end split, so I glued a small 4mm thick floating tenon into the end and across the largest end check, then filled this crack with epoxy toned with black and light purple on the all purple side. Turned out beautifully, can barely see the large crack after it was sanded.
Then turned it over to the other side, and filled the other side of the large crack with some cedar coloured TimberMate, which turned out reasonably well too against the sapwood colouring, although a bit on the lightish side. Did some other thin cracks the same way on that side.
In readiness for oiling this bare timber, and getting rid of what looked like thicknesser chatter marks on the whole surface, I put it through the drum sander. After one pass each side, DISASTER!! Not only were there long scores in the timber from the sander, half the deep purple colour disappeared on both sides, so much so I thought my daughter had been conned and had bought a piece of stained timber. The drum sander used well worn 60 grit, snd these long scratch marks would not come out with 100 grit paper on the ROS.
I am in deep trouble. Can I please get some suggestions on removing these long scratches, and on restoring the deep purple colour if possible?
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