I recently glued up a mess of clear pine shorts into a beautiful block with varied end grain patterns. I decided to make it into a band-saw-box for my niece and I am pleased on how it turned out with the grain effect being exactly what I was trying for.
The problem .... part way through I dropped the box and had to surgical apply glue repair, I'll not repeat what was said at the time ..... in any case the resulting repair gave me one glue joint on the side that stands out, the dark grey line across the light pine (see pic).
So a change in plan for finish is required as I need to disguise the crack repair.
I have a request for purple in the box as its a favorite color of my niece and I am trying to figure how I could best incorporate that color.
I have brown flocking and various brown finishes so I am thinking a rubbed brown stain on the carcass which hopefully will disguise the glue joint, brown flocking inside drawers, and, here is the kicker, perhaps a rubbed purple on the drawers. I have not decided on the drawer handles. I tried the rubbed brown finish on scrap and it highlights the grain nicely, just not sure about the purple in combination. I was thinking of drawer pulls in the same color as the carcass.
Any good color designers out there? suggestion on what color you would incorporate with purple but keep grain highlighted and use either red, green or brown flocking inside the drawers??
I have until Friday to get his finished.
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