Does Stabilizing Prevent Colour Fading

scott kozub

scott kozub

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I'm just curious if anyone knows if stabilizing (both professional and home Cactus Juice) prevents colour from fading over time? I'm thinking about woods like Purple Heart, Padauk etc. I didn't see anything on Turntex's website.
 
Not sure anything will 100% prevent color changing. Take something like purple heart - it oxidizes and the purple gets deeper over time, I don't think it fades. Oils in the wood may still migrate a little. Stabilizing will slow it down tremendously, but not sure if it will prevent fading in all cases.

I did a set of Cocobolo handles (not stabilized) and had a good, complete finish of tru oil on all surfaces. They are much much darker 2 years later. Stuff changes, even when finished and stabilized. But finishing (and stabilizing) should minimize it.
 
The amount of sunlight affects speed and depth of color change. I built a set of doors for the hatchway on my 40 ft sailboat with Bocote wood and they really had a color change - got lots darker because they were exposed to sunlight, even though the bimini top was up most of time. I used the same Bocote wood for flooring the aft cabin, and while they did get darker, but not near so much as the doors which were exposed to sunlight.
 
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