Green-Red-Wood-Dye-Experiment
Hello all,
I thought I would share an experiment with you. The motivation for this came from a prior post where Delirium(?) gave this link
Dying Quilt
I was so impressed that I promptly went out and bought some Curly Maple, Quartersawn White Oak and some Black Cherry wood, a bottle of Transtint Red & Green dye ( each). I wanted to try this! I tried to get some Quilted Maple wood but the store had none.
Here is the starting point
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top to bottom, QS white oak, curly maple, black cherry
Next I applied the green dye, mixed at a ratio of 1 part dye/ 4 parts water and here is the result
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Top is Oak, curly maple, black cherry.
Note the differences of where the dye soaked in!
Tonite the wood was dry so I sanded it back. The original goal was to have the green only in the "grain", the purpose was to provide a greater contrast. The curly maple did not go along with the plan!
Here are some picks after sanding...
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Obviously I sanded the right side more than the left. I want to see what the consequence is when finished.
Next I mixed up some red dye. Using Spazolas suggestion I used a hand sanitizer as a dilute medium and judged the darkness of the mix by using the popsicicle stick. I guess I used the wrong brand because mine did not result in a gel but rather a water consistency.
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I applied the first coat of red and it looked kinda pink on the wood
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