The Art of Coloring Wood : A Woodworkers Guide to Understanding Dyes and Chemicals

Miller and Crestani begin by explaining that while stains deposit pigments into the pores of wood and trap the light, which obscures the grain pattern, chemicals and dyes color the fiber of the wood without leaving a residue, so that light is able to travel into the wood and reflect back, revealing the grain pattern with a great degree of clarity. Focusing on the latter, they explain to professional and amateur woodworkers such aspects as preparing the wood for color, ammonium hydroxide for fuming, potassium dichromate, introduction to natural dyes, logwood, grain filling, and wire brushing. Annotation 2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)