The lumber yard I go to only had #1 common left, no FAS walnut. I picked up an extra 100 bf, but now that it's been surfaced, I'm in a pickle. What I'm looking at is 40% sapwood. I can go to another lumber yard and get FAS, but that's half a day each way and it's over priced. I'll do it if I have to, but I don't want to.
Has anyone had any real success dying walnut sapwood to match the heatwood? I have about 40 doors and drawer fronts to make, all with plywood panels, so I'm looking at about 300 linear feet of rails and stiles that need to be evenly toned.
What would you do? Bite the bullet, lose a day and $ and get more walnut, or play alchemist and try dying/staining/blending sapwood