On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:43:31 -0700 (PDT), the infamous
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On Mar 14, 6:09*pm, "BobS" wrote:

As others have stated, hard maple doesn't take stain that well and dyes
or gel's would yield better results.

Let me offer an alternative, low cost solution. *

*SNIP* of good work

Bob S.

Very interesting technique. Thanks for taking the time and making the
effort to post all that great information.

I like your idea, too. Since stained "anything" doesn't look like the
real McCoy, it is professional suicide to try. I won't stand and make
excuses to the client as to why the two surfaces don't match. I am on
the same page of thinking, as I don't try to match a color or finish
unless I think I can. (BTW, maple will NEVER look like walnut. At the
end of the process, it will look brown, black, or brown/black, but
never like walnut.)

And stained pieces may match well in your shop, with that particular
set of lighting, but not in the dim recesses of the client's home, and
never out in the sunlight. Stain just sucks, all the way around.


So I either try to complement the piece I am trying to match, or to
contrast it completely. When the surfaces don't match correctly, they
automatically tell folks looking at your work something incorrect has
happened.

I like the contrasting idea.


That might be a perfect job to put a very dark brick red cherry dye on
and see how they like that.

Most folks, whose taste is all in their mouths, would love it.

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