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I’m making a Mahogany bookcase using both plywood and hardwood. Some of my hardwood is much lighter in color than the plywood. I had planed on finishing everything with a cherry danish oil and polyurethane. For the lighter areas, I have found a water-based stain that will finish the lighter wood very closely in color to the plywood and other darker hardwood. My question is whether there are any problems with doing this now or in the long term? Are the oil and stain going to age the differently? Can I or should I than oil over the stain? Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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I've never seen the sense in finishing with two different types of finish, except in certain very specific situations. In this case, it's going to work against you.
You'd be better off in my opinion doing all your color work, and then building a topcoat. You might consider "Pre-staining" with a dye stain to give a uniform base color to all the wood, then using a pigmented stain to bring up the grain and figure in the wood. Then topcoat with (ugh!)polyurethane.
Michael R
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