komodo Posted January 30, 2021 Report Share Posted January 30, 2021 Funny thing @Drak, I was searching something here recently and came across a discussion you and I had regarding finishing techniques for enhancing maple figure but with a natural finish, no dye. It was FIFTEEN years ago. lol. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistermikev Posted January 31, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2021 23 hours ago, komodo said: Funny thing @Drak, I was searching something here recently and came across a discussion you and I had regarding finishing techniques for enhancing maple figure but with a natural finish, no dye. It was FIFTEEN years ago. lol. you can't drop something like that and not post a link? sounds pretty interesting... I've often thought about how wood figure can look so much better depending on how it was cut. out of my planer after some 1/64" cuts it looks pretty good... but then sanded looks terrible. usually the pieces I get - if they have a surface that isn't rough - the figure looks really good - then you cut it and it's not quite as good. It's like the weathering of sitting in a yard does something for it and I've often wondered what that is or how to achieve that effect. Perhaps I need to get some fork lift diesel exhaust in a jar! further, have often thought about taking a paint brush and tru oil or dilluted dye... trying to trace the figure and accentuate it. Something wrong with that if your trying to turn a turd into gold... but as an option to do something unique and just enhance figure that is there... could be cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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