Maple lams home dying.

[EwokArcher]

I'm wanting to get a greyed/distressed effect for my maple lams under clear glass. I have seen ppl making the steel wool+vinegar combinations and I wonder if the vinegar would mess up the bond. I see common practice is alchohol based dyes which is my back up plan if I can find dark enough of a grey.
like this video, however I see where ppl say using water (like this guy uses in the tea) is sub optimal for a variety of reasons. Looking for feedback thanks guys!

[kennym]

I wonder if black rit in alcohol mixed light would get it?

[Fishinglink]

You could try leather dye also. Had good luck with that on hickory but was not laminated.
I used fiebings from Tandy leather.

I made that color that by putting down buckskin color and letting dry then putting medium brown over top. Have not tried prefixing colors but they do have grey and black.

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[KenH]

Black shoe polish rubbed out...

[EwokArcher]

I've used the fiebings leather dye "oxblood" and it looke phenomenal on osage. I googled that rit dye powder and got a lot of the dye shirt stuff popping up, is that the same?

[kennym]

Yep, you can get liquid too

[EwokArcher]

I found some graphite (dark grey ish) rits dye liquid shipped free for under 6$ I'll take that over a home brew. I'll post pics of results in a few days

[Robertfishes]

 I would think transtint mixed into denatured alcohol would "dye" your wood lamination. What I am going to do (one day) is to mix tint with Denatured alcohol and air brush it onto my wood lams..even use different colors like brown, red , black, tan to make faux Rosewoods?? it would be an experiment and may look crappy due to bleed over...I may be able to build bows again around January so maybe I can try it then. I have put a drop or two of black transtint in Krystal spray finish, it made a clear slightly gray finish over a maple riser bow.

[Roy from Pa]

It's hard to beat an alcohol soluble aniline dye...

https://woodworker.com/alcohol-soluble-brt-yellow-golden-oak-aniline-dye-mssu-845-541.asp?search=aniline%20dye&searchmode=2

[EwokArcher]

I love how this grey turned out. Applied a medium coat and wiped after 3 minutes.
The sun made them appear brown but the color under shoplight shows the true grey

[EwokArcher]

I picked up some red at wallyworld for 4.50. 3$ cheaper than online.  Experimented with a base coat of grey lightly sanded then reapplied the red over and put on a little finish.

[kennym]

What dye did you end up using? Looks good!!

[EwokArcher]

All of these pictures are the rits dyes liquid form

[Crittergetter]

Binghams sells a water based dye. I think they have grey too but can’t remember for sure.  Just be sure to let them dry adequately. This is their walnut dye on quilted maple.


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[Roy from Pa]

Randy that is purty...