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Meringo
166
Mar 25, 2016
Purple heart is a rather difficult wood to work with, especially since it's 20% more dense than red oak. I really can't wait to hear the differences.
Jas260
52
Mar 25, 2016
Meringowhat ur mean by difficult? to manufacture?
Meringo
166
Mar 25, 2016
Jas260I do a lot of DIY projects with wood. Purple Heart is beautiful, and exotic, but also incredibly easy to mess up. Purple Heart is known to splinter when routing, chip when planing (reducing thickness), or burn when sawing. I trust Fostex, though.
Buckbrick
521
Mar 25, 2016
MeringoI believe these cups are sealed. How would they hold up in usage?
Jas260
52
Mar 25, 2016
MeringoG, I hope they are endurable... wont mess up during normal use..
madwolfa
39
Mar 25, 2016
BuckbrickThey would eventually shift color to brown-ish because of natural UV exposure... Not sure how long it would take, maybe decades.
Erix
134
Mar 25, 2016
madwolfaEven if kept covered or in a closet, away from UV, they will still darken from oxidation, even through a polyurethane coating. See the second to last paragraph of:
http://hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/purpleheart.htm
Will mentioned in his first comment (page 1), however, that these would be died. Will the die maintain the purple appearance in the pictures?
SenorPlatano
389
Mar 25, 2016
madwolfaI think if they're covered in a certain coating they don't, which I'm pretty sure they are.
SenorPlatano
389
Mar 25, 2016
MeringoWill said it's gonna be subtle and he's the one selling it, if he wanted he would say it's a completely different pair of headphones that you should own along with the mahogany TH-X00, but he didn't.
Buckbrick
521
Mar 25, 2016
madwolfaWell wood does expand and contract with weather. It's humid most part of the year where I live and my mahogany bodied guitars fare better than my one cedar one. The cedar one actually bows out due to the humidity. Not sure about denser woods. Rosewood and teak withstand humidity very well. I'm real wary when it comes to wood.
Meringo
166
Mar 25, 2016
SenorPlatanoI'm not trying to make the claim it will be anything more than subtle.
Jedi
881
Mar 25, 2016
ErixShoot, I hope the manufacturer doesn't run out of purpleheart wood and just starts using purple die on the mahogany cups!
SenorPlatano
389
Mar 25, 2016
MeringoThen how come you can't wait?
madwolfa
39
Mar 25, 2016
BuckbrickPurpleheart is extremely durable and water-resistant wood. Other than color shift due to UV and being an ass to work with, it's pretty much invincible.
Erix
134
Mar 25, 2016
madwolfa"Purpleheart is extremely durable and water-resistant wood."
Great! I can take my headphones to the beach. :)
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