Thread: How to finish stripey maple

Dan has some great info for you there. One thing I'd add is that you can do some things to really pop the figure and then finish with a protective coat like a poly or something else like that.

If you get some dark brown wood dye (like an analine dye) and some amber or lighter dye, with a cloth dye the wood dark, then when the dye is set sand lightly with 220 or 320 until the dye is only still showing up a bit in the grain.

Then use your lighter colored dye on top of that. Guitar makers do this to intensify their figured woods, it works really well. The figure will pop like crazy, then you can finish with a clear poly or something like that. Just my 2 cents.

Dave


BTW here is one site where this guy shows pictures of his two step dye process... you can do this for any color you want.... take a look, just scroll down the page to see the pictures and explanation.

Two step dying tutorial