Oughtsix wrote:

After years of trying to get a good blotch free finish with stain
trying everything from wiping stain to spraying dye I have decised I
hate stain.**Maple,*Cherry,*Walnut*and*IPE*are*all*beau tiful*woods
when finished naturally.**(At*least*this*is*what*I*tell*myself).

And if you must change the color, as in matching an existing piece, dyes do a
much more blotch-free job than stains

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It's turtles, all the way down