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I want to do some inlay work on hard wood floors, and some of the colors
do not naturally occur in wood (to my knowledge, anyway). I would like the colors to be preserved if the floor ever needs a sanding and refinishing. My first thought was to dye a rather neutral-colored wood, e.g. maple, to the desired color. What sort of dye should I use? What should I do?
The prospect of building a pressure vessel is not out of the question; selling steel by day and wood by night hath its advantages.
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Scott,
I vagely remember an article in FWW about an Italian veneer company doing this but there was no techno info, also I have heard of a process using alder,heat,high pressure,dye etc to make a substitute ebony, I think it was developed by a B.C. government forestry lab in Kelowna B.C. but the process was again licsensed to an Italian firm, sorry thats all I can remember. There was also an article about a fellow feeding trees dye to get coloured wood, take a while before you can floor with it.
so long from the Kootenays,gtw
*Here's an idea. Submerge the wood in dye and place under vacuum. The vacuum would suck the air from the wood and impregnate the wood with the dye.Would be similar to the pressure idea.Good luck.
*Plus a vacuum vessel would implode, not explode.
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