Surface dye

[Jonkou]

Experiment with alcohol dye on curly maple. Whole lot cheaper than buying the pressure pot ones.

 

[Danie Maartens]

Like the result, goes very well with the brass kit. Need to give it a try aswell.

 

[carlmorrell]

Made this a few days ago. It's hempwood. I dyed it with food coloring that was in my kitchen supplies.

 

[ramaroodle]

Made this a few days ago. It's hempwood. I dyed it with food coloring that was in my kitchen supplies.

What is your source for the hemp wood?

 

[carlmorrell]

Someone on facebook had a few to sell. Hempwood.com is selling them for $15 a blank

 

[TonyL]

This could be a game-changer.

 

[ramaroodle]

Someone on facebook had a few to sell. Hempwood.com is selling them for $15 a blank

No. Hempwood.com sells 4 blanks for $15 but you have to buy 10 4 packs minimum hence the $150. Plus I want a long board so I can do cross cut blanks also.

 

[dogcatcher]

Here is an experiment for you, a piece of wood like on the first pen, curly maple. Dye it black before you start sanding, then sand through your normal process, then dye with the brown. The black will soak in deeper in the softer parts of the curly grain, when sanding off the black you will get different shades left by the black. When you dye with the brown, the remaining black will accent the grain. Or try different colors, red and blue work good with this dye process.

 

[Jonkou]

That is how the above was done, with black and amber.