{"id":1601,"date":"2017-08-13T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T19:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2017-08-13T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T19:15:20","slug":"knobs-317-to-322-our-ladies-of-perpetual-punk-beli-w-purpleheart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/2017\/08\/13\/knobs-317-to-322-our-ladies-of-perpetual-punk-beli-w-purpleheart\/","title":{"rendered":"Knobs 317 to 322 \u2013 Our Ladies of Perpetual Punk, Beli w\/ Purpleheart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Knobs 317, 318 & 319<\/p>\n

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Knobs 320, 321 & 322<\/p>\n

Named for the mixed-race ladies of punk rock with purple hair, Our Ladies of Perpetual Punk have \u00be vertical grain Beli with \u00bc horizontal grain Purpleheart woods.\u00a0 The heights range from 0.733\u201d to 0.755\u201d, and the diameters from 0.864\u201d to 0.989\u201d.<\/p>\n

Beli is similar to Zebrawood in color, but less expensive.\u00a0 It has a medium-coarse, medium-hard fibrous grain, and cuts leaving strings of grain at the margins.\u00a0 It has nice iridescence in the side grain, a little hard to see here with vertical grain.<\/p>\n

Purpleheart has finer and more uniform grain, which is highly iridescent when properly polished and finished.\u00a0 As can be seen from the different angles of the knobs in the light in the top rows.\u00a0 It has an unfortunate tendency to burn and lose color when heated by turning, sanding or polishing, ending up looking more like beige Cherry wood.\u00a0 One of the guys at Woodcraft suggested that oils cause the color, which can be induce to come back to the surface.\u00a0 So the Purpleheart in these knobs was wetted with 91% rubbing alcohol (to avoid raising grain in the Beli) after cutting and polishing, and left to set for several days. It seems to have worked.<\/p>\n

These knobs were primed with Rustoleum clear glossy spray lacquer.\u00a0 Some were finished with Minwax Polycrylic.\u00a0 But roughing the surface of the lacquer with fine abrasive cloth to assure a good tooth for the acrylic to adhere to allowed enough of the water-based finish through to cause the grain to raise.\u00a0 This required repeated sanding and coating, so the last three knobs (or more) have only lacquer.\u00a0 Still the surface texture of all the knobs has raised grain that can be felt.\u00a0 It\u2019s wood \u2013 that\u2019s what some wood does.\u00a0 Consider it a better gripping surface.<\/p>\n

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Knobs 317, 318 & 319 Knobs 320, 321 & 322 Named for the mixed-race ladies of punk rock with purple hair, Our Ladies of Perpetual Punk have \u00be vertical grain Beli with \u00bc horizontal grain Purpleheart woods.\u00a0 The heights range … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,37],"tags":[323,445,443,68,446,58,358,438,442,444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}