Finish vs Chatoyance

**chatometry** · 4th June 2022, 07:06 AM

Hi everyone
This is Paolo, from the PZC Chatometry – A standard system to measure wood chatoyance team... just to share some results we are collecting with our chatoyance measurements with different finishes.

Finishing Maple:
Finishing Maple – PZC Chatometry

Finishing Curly Maple – PZC Chatometry

Finishing Okoume:
Finishing Okoume – PZC Chatometry

Epoxy on different wood species:
Epoxy resin – PZC Chatometry

Sanding vs raw veneer:
https://www.chatometry.com/case-stud...s-fine-sanded/

https://www.chatometry.com/surface-p...n-curly-maple/

I hope this info can be useful to the community.
Any suggestions for further testing are warmly welcome.

Paolo

**BobL** · 4th June 2022, 09:42 AM

Thanks for all the info on chatoyance
I'd like to know more about the "blonde" and "Red" oils you refer to in your testing.

**chatometry** · 5th June 2022, 12:36 AM

These are local brand oils, with a relatively low cost. However, their packaging provides no information at all about their content. The "blonde" oil does not alter colour, while the "red" oil leaves a reddish hue.
I believe that the red hue is responsible for the higher visible chatoyance, and any other dye would work as well...