I want to build a home office setup.
I have tons of maple ply. But I want to build a cherry piece.
If I do the face frames and doors in cherry and stain the maple I fear
that over time the cherry will age and darken and the maple stained case
work won't. Am I correct?
Cherry ply is twice the price and I am unemployed now so I don't want to
purchase any more wood. Any suggestions?
On Jan 16, 6:30 pm, "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "woodbutcher" wrote:
> > I want to build a home office setup.
>
> > I have tons of maple ply. But I want to build a cherry piece.
>
> > If I do the face frames and doors in cherry and stain the maple I
> fear
> > that over time the cherry will age and darken and the maple stained
> case
> > work won't. Am I correct?
>
> > Cherry ply is twice the price and I am unemployed now so I don't
> want to
> > purchase any more wood. Any suggestions?
>
> IMHO, trying to stain maple sucks.
>
> Ever consider contrasting cherry and maple?
>
I like Lew's idea. Cherry and maple go great together. Take some time
to design the piece. Colored pencils should help you get feel for the
finished project. You might even consider thin walnut strips to
accentuate the differences. Walnut would also make great plugs if you
like that kind of look. Kick it around. It doesn't sound like you're
going into production with this piece so why not push your creativity?
"woodbutcher" wrote:
> I want to build a home office setup.
>
> I have tons of maple ply. But I want to build a cherry piece.
>
> If I do the face frames and doors in cherry and stain the maple I
fear
> that over time the cherry will age and darken and the maple stained
case
> work won't. Am I correct?
>
> Cherry ply is twice the price and I am unemployed now so I don't
want to
> purchase any more wood. Any suggestions?
IMHO, trying to stain maple sucks.
Ever consider contrasting cherry and maple?
Lew
In article <[email protected]>, FrozenNorth
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Paint it.
> ;-)
Flat Black!
Joe
woodbutcher <nospam.woodbutcher.com> took a can of maroon spray paint on
January 16, 2008 05:11 pm and wrote the following:
> I want to build a home office setup.
>
> I have tons of maple ply. But I want to build a cherry piece.
>
> If I do the face frames and doors in cherry and stain the maple I fear
> that over time the cherry will age and darken and the maple stained case
> work won't. Am I correct?
>
> Cherry ply is twice the price and I am unemployed now so I don't want to
> purchase any more wood. Any suggestions?
Paint it.
;-)
--
Lits Slut #9
Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.
On Jan 16, 7:34 pm, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote:
> I like Lew's idea. Cherry and maple go great together.
That was my first thought too. I've never had good luck trying to
match different species with stain, but I've liked the pieces where I
used contrasting woods and no stain at all. In my own opinion you'll
never get them exactly the same but it's easy to get them to
complement each other.
It's probably not relevant but I feel I should quote my wife's
reaction when she laid eyes on our granddaughter's cherry cradle after
its first coat of clear satin ArmrSeal: "THAT'S the color I was
looking for when we stained that maple nightstand you made for me!"
"woodbutcher" <nospam.woodbutcher.com> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I want to build a home office setup.
>
> I have tons of maple ply. But I want to build a cherry piece.
>
> If I do the face frames and doors in cherry and stain the maple I fear
> that over time the cherry will age and darken and the maple stained case
> work won't. Am I correct?
>
> Cherry ply is twice the price and I am unemployed now so I don't want to
> purchase any more wood. Any suggestions?
Butcher,
How about fast-aging the cherry so you don't have to guess what color to
stain the maple. I know there's some tried and true methods out there...
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.woodworking/search?hl=en&group=rec.woodworking&q=aging+cherry
Good luck and don't forget to post the pics
jc
"woodbutcher" <nospam.woodbutcher.com> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I want to build a home office setup.
>
> I have tons of maple ply. But I want to build a cherry piece.
>
> If I do the face frames and doors in cherry and stain the maple I fear
> that over time the cherry will age and darken and the maple stained case
> work won't. Am I correct?
>
> Cherry ply is twice the price and I am unemployed now so I don't want to
> purchase any more wood. Any suggestions?
Often a stark contrast looks much better than an attempted match that
doesn't quite match. I would advise finding a different color wood that
goes well with Cherry, such as Walnut, and or Maple and stain your Maple to
match that wood rather than Cherry. If you choose Maple no matching is
necessary. If you decide on Walnut you can be way off on the Walnut color
and it will still look fine.
Or get a job and then do the job the way you want when you can afford it.
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Jan 16, 7:34 pm, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I like Lew's idea. Cherry and maple go great together.
>
> That was my first thought too. I've never had good luck trying to
> match different species with stain, but I've liked the pieces where I
> used contrasting woods and no stain at all. In my own opinion you'll
> never get them exactly the same but it's easy to get them to
> complement each other.
>
> It's probably not relevant but I feel I should quote my wife's
> reaction when she laid eyes on our granddaughter's cherry cradle after
> its first coat of clear satin ArmrSeal: "THAT'S the color I was
> looking for when we stained that maple nightstand you made for me!"
How's your tongue? I imagine you were biting it pretty hard right about
then.
I've heard that comment as well, I can empathize.
jc
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:11:24 -0500, woodbutcher
<nospam.woodbutcher.com> wrote:
>I want to build a home office setup.
>
>I have tons of maple ply. But I want to build a cherry piece.
>
>If I do the face frames and doors in cherry and stain the maple I fear
>that over time the cherry will age and darken and the maple stained case
>work won't. Am I correct?
>
If you apply finish to only some areas and not the others, it won't
look uniform, ever. Apply (cherry) stain to all parts.
>Cherry ply is twice the price and I am unemployed now so I don't want to
> purchase any more wood. Any suggestions?
The logical (and frugal) choice: Make it out of maple ply. Maple is
a beautiful wood, although not currently in vogue.