Hi all, in this thread I attempted to use food colour with mixed results, so this morning I tried a couple of things.
Logic told me that if the porous wood was already wet, then the dye would be less likely to run bleed or wick into adjacent areas.
The first two stripes on the left were just applied with a very fine brush on the bare wood
Next from the left is stripes were I dampened the wood with clean water.
This was a shock as it had the opposite result to what I expected.
Next stripes are after wetting with Isopropanol Alcohol.
Then I dampened with White Spirit. ( an alternative to paint thinners)Although the lines are thicker ( heavy hand) the edges were much sharper. Next I soaked the end of the blank in the spirit for a couple of minutes and used a tissue to dry it a bit.
As you can, the lines a pretty well defined with no noticeable bleeding.
I will let this spirit dry completely and see if it will now take a CA finish over it.
All of the lines were originally only as wide as those on the right. So the results look promising ( if it will now take a finish ):wink:
Logic told me that if the porous wood was already wet, then the dye would be less likely to run bleed or wick into adjacent areas.
The first two stripes on the left were just applied with a very fine brush on the bare wood
Next from the left is stripes were I dampened the wood with clean water.
This was a shock as it had the opposite result to what I expected.
Next stripes are after wetting with Isopropanol Alcohol.
Then I dampened with White Spirit. ( an alternative to paint thinners)Although the lines are thicker ( heavy hand) the edges were much sharper. Next I soaked the end of the blank in the spirit for a couple of minutes and used a tissue to dry it a bit.
As you can, the lines a pretty well defined with no noticeable bleeding.
I will let this spirit dry completely and see if it will now take a CA finish over it.
All of the lines were originally only as wide as those on the right. So the results look promising ( if it will now take a finish ):wink: