I googled ebonizing maple, and naturally 3 of the top 5 answers were from SMC. Read thru them, lots of good advice. And I'll be testing several of them to see what I like. Here's the question: I want to leave a splotch of natural maple in the middle. We had a black Lab who died recently and I want to make a cremains box for her. Not sure what it's going to look like yet, but Pearl had a white spot on her chest, and I would like to bring that reference, or hint, into the front of the box.
So with all the methods out there (india ink, ink jet printer ink, leather dye, RIT dye, Feiblings, GNR, etc) how would you create an unstained, random, splotch on the maple. (or are there suggestions for other wood to use??) I've thought about dripping candle wax, taking a pipette of sealer and dropping it on, using a pipette to drop the ink/stain around the splotch, using hot melt glue in a random pattern, etc. I plan on doing some experiments, but was curious what suggestions y'all might have. TIA.