josephbert Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 First time poster here. I want to dye some maple blue then inlay it into some natural maple. My question is~ Does the dye soak in a little? When I'm scraping and sanding the inlay flush will I remove the dye? Thanks for any thoughts on the topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulMarcel Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 I just finished a project dying hard Maple blue; crazy... It does soak in... reasonably far in the curl, but the 'flat' grain barely takes it in. Any scraping or sanding will go through it. Now maybe if you really soak your inlay you'll get enough; that I can't guess how it would turn out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bois Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 In general you want to avoid sanding after dying if possible. That's why you raise the grain and sand before applying a water based dye. If your inlay sits at all proud you're likely to sand through some dye at best. It might be worth experimenting a bit - even soaking some sample pieces (ideally in an alcohol-based dye solution) and maybe you can get it to soak deeply enough to sand without discoloring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josephbert Posted April 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 Thanks for the tips! Some experimenting is in order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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