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   Danford_C_ | May 08, 2002 08:21am | #1

   Kev,

   Use Min Wax Cherry (#235)  Wood Finish.  If he is paying you for your efforts, tell him he can have any color he wants as long as it's Cherry #235.  If he isn't paying you for your efforts, tell him he can have any color he wants as long as it's Cherry #235....Then send him a bill....

   Personally, I think it will end up looking like hell and would finish it as you had intended to.  No way will Oak ever look like Cherry.....

   Dano

   "Form and Function are One" - Frank L. Wright

   
   

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   Edited 5/8/2002 1:24:25 AM ET by Danford C. Jennings

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   SgianDubh | May 08, 2002 09:04am | #2

   All is not lost I suspect. It sounds like you need to dye the timber with a fairly powerful red/brown dye to establish a base colour. Then follow this up with a pigment stain, perhaps one like Dano suggested to get the dark bits into the grain. Then you might tint the polish, and in between add a glaze.  If done right it will be the prescribed dark red 'cherry' look, but as sure as hell it won't look  anything like real cherry. It'll just look that gaudy, roaring red semi painted, translucent  effect, which is all that  most punters know of the 'cherry look', even if it's made of maple, or poplar, or ash, or oak, or chestnut, or heavens forbid,------rosewood. LOL. Slainte, RJ.

   Link to RJFurniture site.
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   UncleDunc | May 08, 2002 10:05am | #3

   That actually sounds very tasteful. I thought he was asking for maraschino cherry red.

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   logcabin | May 08, 2002 10:40pm | #4

   I've never done this but am thinking about it a lot.  How about aniline dye?  Comes in lotsa colors yet the grain still shows through.  I understood your brothers request to be the COLOR of cherry, not to look like cherry.

   Tom from Clayton