Drstrangefart
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This is a piece of soft maple I dyed with blue food coloring. Ran out of coloring because it was an ancient bottle. I managed to force some denatured alcohol in there and get the dye back to useable so I could finish the job right. I tried soaking the barrel in thin CA after dye so I could sand without too much fear of losing the color, but I still lost a lot of it and couldn't really get into the sanding how I like to. Instead I switched up to piling on layers of medium CA and sanding back until the finish was close enough to call it. I figured a copper kit would really pop on the blue, and I feel like it was a good call to make. It was definitely an interesting and messy process, I hope to try it again. I will likely get the sanding done most of the way first, at least get the 150 grit done so I can start on a smoother surface. The maple had a very open grain after I got done with cutting it into a barrel.