Greetings. I'm ignorant about finishing and have been reading through posts here to figure out how to finish curly maple. Almost ten years ago a forum participant, Donnie Raines, posted pictures of a fine curly maple table top he had done with dye and Pratt and Lambert 38. Here's a copy of a pic in his thread
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...ly-Maple-Table
Raines' curly maple table top.JPG
In the thread he said he "used Moser Brown water dye..that was "thinned" out for a softer color. For the top coat I used Pratt and Lambert #38 varnish....which I thinned out to 75% varnish to 25% mineral spirits to make a wiping varnish." I p/med him to ask which of the Moser Brown dyes he had used -- Amazon has several different ones -- and how much he had thinned it but have not received a response. Can anyone here figure out the answer? If I could get in the ballpark I'd be satisfied.