I know this has been asked before but I cannot find a satisfactory answer.
We are building kitchen cabinets and will make them out of maple. I love
the color of cherry however and would like to dye the maple to cherry. It's
not a cost issue; it's because I don't like how dark cherry gets over years.
Does anyone have any specific aniline dye suggestions on how to get hard
maple to look like new cherry? Thanks in advance.

"work" wrote in message
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I know this has been asked before but I cannot find a satisfactory answer.
We are building kitchen cabinets and will make them out of maple. I love
the color of cherry however and would like to dye the maple to cherry.
It's
not a cost issue; it's because I don't like how dark cherry gets over
years.
Does anyone have any specific aniline dye suggestions on how to get hard
maple to look like new cherry? Thanks in advance.



Soft maple would have been a better bet. Hard maple is difficult to
convince that it should change color. Dye and glaze - pigmented finish -
would be the best. Start with a commercial product and modify from there.

Build the cabinets out of alder, then stain to look like cherry. Very
common to buy pre-made "cherry-stained alder" cabinets and other fine
furniture.



"work" wrote in message
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I know this has been asked before but I cannot find a satisfactory answer.
We are building kitchen cabinets and will make them out of maple. I love
the color of cherry however and would like to dye the maple to cherry.
It's
not a cost issue; it's because I don't like how dark cherry gets over
years.
Does anyone have any specific aniline dye suggestions on how to get hard
maple to look like new cherry? Thanks in advance.

If you go the site below they can answer that question. JG
http://www.homesteadfinishing.com/


work wrote:

I know this has been asked before but I cannot find a satisfactory answer.
We are building kitchen cabinets and will make them out of maple. I love
the color of cherry however and would like to dye the maple to cherry. It's
not a cost issue; it's because I don't like how dark cherry gets over years.
Does anyone have any specific aniline dye suggestions on how to get hard
maple to look like new cherry? Thanks in advance.

work wrote:
I know this has been asked before but I cannot find a satisfactory answ=
er.
We are building kitchen cabinets and will make them out of maple. I lo=
ve
the color of cherry however and would like to dye the maple to cherry. =
It's
not a cost issue; it's because I don't like how dark cherry gets over y=
ears.
Does anyone have any specific aniline dye suggestions on how to get har=
d
maple to look like new cherry? Thanks in advance.
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Just have a look at the Lee Valley aniline dies. That should give you an =

idea of what's available...
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...,190&p=3D42996


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Will R.
Jewel Boxes and Wood Art
http://woodwork.pmccl.com
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those=20
who have not got it.=94 George Bernard Shaw