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J. Clarke[_2_]

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On 11/12/10 8:00 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:34:42 -0600, Martin Eastburn
wrote:

I can just see it. The Court takes the cabinets off to store for
the trial. In storage, the cabinets darken.

Get a red faced customer and a happy vendor.

Martin

They won't ever turn the color of cherry stain, which is the color of
the fruit, not the wood. People like the customer in this story think
that the wood of a cherry tree is the same color as cherry stain.
These cabinets have been clear coated. I imagine they will be light
colored for many years.

I want some grape cabinets.

Dunno where Salty gets the idea that cherry stain is the color of the
fruit. I wonder of what he believes "oak" stain to be the color. I had
occasion to stain a piece of poplar with "cherry" the other day and
hadn't installed it yet, so just for hohos I set it on top of a cherry
turning square that's been laying around for five years or so and when
you allow for the dust on the turning square it's pretty close--the
poplar has taken on several different shades in different spots and I
can find spots on the turning square that are pretty close to matching
all of them. Some are a bit pinkish.

And clear coating doesn't automagically prevent color changes. Depends
on the chemistry and the coating.