sorcerertd
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I cut and tubed a couple pieces of Wenge for Zens. A little while back I turned them down. leaving plenty of diameter to spare, then bleached them. I know it was no more than 2 minutes. After rinsing and letting them thoroughly dry, I used random splotches of aniline dye on one of them, thinking it would sink in fairly deep. Today, I turned off probably less than a mm of the dyed one and see that the wood looks like it was never even bleached. I guess that makes it easy to practice without cutting all the way down to the finished size, even though that wasn't my intention.