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Since my Sunburts Statesmen lasted all of 3 days before I sold it. I had some dead beat barrels around that were nice, but didn't have the pop to them. So I messed around last night with some chesnut stain on varouis woods and here is a sample. No shelac or finish has been put on yet.
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1 Taz Eucalyptus, this was allready dyed red, I sanded back and hit it with some yellow, this was a stabilized blank and not much stain took, but looks good.
2 Marble maple, I hit it with yellow, just two drops on a paper towel with the lathe spinning, then put a touch of red on top of the wet yellow towel and went over very lightly, as if I was barely touching it, to get a hint of red.
3 Buckeye burl, had a red undercoat, and a heavey yellow over it.
4 This guy is going to find the trash can, I am tired of refinishing this one, started out as a natural spalted maple, dyed green, sanded off, dyed blue, snaded that off and finally settle on the red, you can still see hint of all the colors, but not in the photo. Note the spot at the bottom, I'm sure at the time I cut this, I used CA on that part, stain did not stick.
5 This was a green stabilized BEB, didn't like it, hit it with yellow and red, not much stain sticks to the stabilized wood, this was from BB, so I'm sure it had a very good stabilized job.
6 Another marble maple favoring the yellow
7 A BEB favoring the yellow undertone, with heavey red overlay.
This stuff is fun to play with, although I my fingers look like primary colors this morning. Here is the link , I bought the sample pac for 16.00, that is plenty to get you started with some fun.
http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/cgi-bin/shopper?preadd=action&key=985-2999
These are the finished blanks, 3 coats of sand sealer 3 coats of Endure poly
L-R
1 Taz Eucalyptus, this was allready dyed red, I sanded back and hit it with some yellow, this was a stabilized blank and not much stain took, but looks good.
2 Marble maple, I hit it with yellow, just two drops on a paper towel with the lathe spinning, then put a touch of red on top of the wet yellow towel and went over very lightly, as if I was barely touching it, to get a hint of red.
3 Buckeye burl, had a red undercoat, and a heavey yellow over it.
4 This guy is going to find the trash can, I am tired of refinishing this one, started out as a natural spalted maple, dyed green, sanded off, dyed blue, snaded that off and finally settle on the red, you can still see hint of all the colors, but not in the photo. Note the spot at the bottom, I'm sure at the time I cut this, I used CA on that part, stain did not stick.
5 This was a green stabilized BEB, didn't like it, hit it with yellow and red, not much stain sticks to the stabilized wood, this was from BB, so I'm sure it had a very good stabilized job.
6 Another marble maple favoring the yellow
7 A BEB favoring the yellow undertone, with heavey red overlay.
This stuff is fun to play with, although I my fingers look like primary colors this morning. Here is the link , I bought the sample pac for 16.00, that is plenty to get you started with some fun.
http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/cgi-bin/shopper?preadd=action&key=985-2999
These are the finished blanks, 3 coats of sand sealer 3 coats of Endure poly
