How brown WILL padouk get?

[stubhead]

From the Warmoth site, they say:

Bright vivid red color which oxidizes to a warm brown with use.

I have a yummy padouk neck on my fretless P-bass, which is easing towards a warm brown as predicted. However, I might want to arrest this trend at an yet-to-be-determined point - just how brown is "warm brown"? Is it as brown as the pau ferro fingerboard?

 

[willyk]

It's always going to be reddish as oppsed to the more yellowy brown from what I can see of the fingerboard. Just arrest it when you like the color, you can't reverse the oxidation process.

 

[kboman]

If you tour incessantly for years, it can go pretty darn brown:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DffIPzpFiM0[/youtube]

:laughing7:

/KB

 

[simple]

I've seen older necks that are a milk-chocolate brown.

 

[Orpheo]

I've seen older necks that are a milk-chocolate brown.

I agree. it seems like they react by sunlight and air, so if you seal it air and light-tight, you'll keep your red-neck

 

[line6man]

I put a piece of scrap Padouk in my windowsill for a couple of weeks, and i completely forgot it was there until i went to clean the windowsill last night.

After a couple of weeks of constant sunlight, the wood had a disgusting dried out brown color to it. I was a bit freaked out at first, but then i put some Howard Feed N' Wax on it, and that brought the wood back to life.

Here are the pictures: