Maximizing Beal Leaf Maple "Pop"

[Chuck Darney]

I have very nice piece of Big leaf maple that I'm working into a project. Just throwing a little alcohol on to the wood shows amazing figure. I like to maximize the "pop" in the figure. Does anyone have sugguestions for maximizing the figure in this beautiful piece of wood?


I tried transtint dye with birdseye maple to enhance the figure but I don't have much "spare" wood to work with for testing. I don't want to darken the maple significantly but would like the maximize the figure.


Thanks...Chuck

[sheldon pettit]

an application of ferrous sulfate 2% to a quart or multiple applications of the intended dye color of choice, allowing to dry and resand the surfaces, this will remove the dye from the unfigured areas but leave it in the interlocking figure, the more times you do this the more saturation of the color in the figure ok?