Wood finish for cherry

[Vomitus]

  I lyek that colour! Chambers varnish,eh? Hmm,is it explosive? No ship to Canada? ...pity

[WadePatton]

Found a wonderful cherry blowdown (future stock or two) in the woods recently.  not a marketable log in it, but a huge crotch and some twist.  I'll be slabbing it out soon enough. 

Wonder if potassium hydroxide would be as effective as sodium hydroxide-as they're both "lye" but give different characteristics to soaps-and the former being easily produced by "old timey" methods.

[Dale Campbell]

Potassium and Sodium Hydroxide should give similar results.  Test it out on a piece of cherry first, though.

[WadePatton]

Nice.

Yes, as the experienced builders know, that's one of the great advantages to building from a slab--way plenty of same-tree wood for process testing.

[MarkEngraver]

Sorry it has taken so long, but here is the promised photo of my cherry stock stained with AF.



As I said AF turned it black!, and I used 4-O steel wool to work the color back to where I wanted it.

Mark