Blackberry Spoon
I roughed out a vine maple spoon a couple of weeks ago. I got the spoon to this state (100grit) and decided I would like to try out some new dye as the maple is so blah ..
So reaching into the freezer I pulled out a quart of frozen blackberries and brought them to a boil.
Dumped the syrup into a gallon ziplock bag and tossed in the spoon.
24 hours later ..
I left this to dry for a few days and then completed the sanding followed up with 3 days in flaxseed oil. I was wondering how deep the purple berry stain had gone, but it seems it penetrated deeper into this wood than my last natural dye using tea.
I got quite a varied pattern from the grain .some places nearly white and others deep dark purple. Overall I like this one.
I roughed out a vine maple spoon a couple of weeks ago. I got the spoon to this state (100grit) and decided I would like to try out some new dye as the maple is so blah ..
So reaching into the freezer I pulled out a quart of frozen blackberries and brought them to a boil.
Dumped the syrup into a gallon ziplock bag and tossed in the spoon.
24 hours later ..
I left this to dry for a few days and then completed the sanding followed up with 3 days in flaxseed oil. I was wondering how deep the purple berry stain had gone, but it seems it penetrated deeper into this wood than my last natural dye using tea.
I got quite a varied pattern from the grain .some places nearly white and others deep dark purple. Overall I like this one.