How To Dye Maple Wood

Many non water based clears can really get weird on top of these.

How to dye maple wood. Cheapest dye oil based dye powder wd. Wherever the solvent soaks into the wood fibers it takes the dye with it changing the color of the wood cells themselves. Seal with shellac before a waterborne finish. The term soft maple is a bit of a comparative misnomer as soft maple is harder than many other hardwoods such as cherry.

This produces a noticeably different look than pigments especially on dense tight grained woods such as maple that offer few places for pigment to settle. The difference really stands out when you dye dense wood that doesnt accept stain well or figured wood such as curly maple. Moser tinting oil based finishes dyeing bare wood will color lift. I mix blue dyes to apply on oak and maple to make a gorgeous blue wood stain.

Use dye for bold and stunning figure pop. Stain tends to create a bland look on figured wood while dye gives the surface an attractive undulating appearance. See how general finishes water based wood stain meets the challenge of uniform and dark color absorption on difficult to stain wood species such as pine cherry birch and maple without the need. I hope this video helps display how powerful versatile.

Moser transfast applied to bare wood tinting other dyes or clear finishes all finishes. Dyes on the other hand dissolve completely in their solvents. These dyes give you unlimited possibilities of colors and fade options. Soft maple is also often referred to as tiger maple for the tiger like stripes in the wood or curly maple if the stripes are a bit more of the curly nature.

After 3 coats of solar lux maple brown dye each coat sanded off before the next coat 1 coat of tung oil. If you are staining maple grain be certain to place a heavy coat of black on first and definitely seal the wood after staining. See the photo above for examples of coloring curly maple. I used keda liquid dyes to make this high end blue wood stain.