Russet
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After reading the forums and info letters, I built a vacuum chamber out of a pickle jar and stabilized some cotton wood burl that I had harvested. I was very pleased with results using polyurethane. As I like to try new things, I then tried using a wood stain mixed in with my Poly and was initially impressed but after turning the blanks I noticed that the stain had not penetrated the burl very well. I have searched the forums and have not found a satisfactory answer to a question I'm about to pose. When dying a blank that will be stabilized do you do it before the poly, what dye do you use, do you dye it in a vacuum chamber, do you stabilize-turn-dye then finish. I would like to achieve bright vibrant colors in the cotton wood burl, but it definitely needs to be stabilized before turning.
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Russet[8D]
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Russet[8D]