I am working on a federal period walnut table, and it surprisingly looks good to me, so I am afraid I am going to mess it up. My first piece of indoor furniture. Couple of questions.
Trying to figure out whether to do timbermate walnut pore filler, or not, before a shellac finish followed by wax. Any suggestions, I.e., should I skip the filler? Everything is hand planed, and the only part that seems to have noticeably open pores is the beveled underside of the top. The tapered legs seem really smooth. I have not yet rounded the end grain edges of the table top, so that might open up some pores there as well.
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Second, any suggestions on transtint? Guy at the lumber store said it is kiln dried, but it seems to have a good color and everything was from a single 8/4 board and i don’t need to blend any sap wood. I used some golden brown on walnut plywood previously and read that kiln dried veneer had color issues, but this looks okay.
Third, the banding is tiger maple. 2 drops of honey amber in 2 oz of water looked good to me on the banding and extremely subtle, but everything from the past that I see online looks a lot darker and more orange. Is natural too stark for this kind of piece? Golden brown was striking, but maybe too much. Reddish brown was too red.
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