Working on a Christmas gift. I got the wood scrap, but I think it’s walnut. Eventually planning to polyurethane and fill in the engraving with black paint, but I’m stuck on how/weather to stain it.
I have a few stains from various projects, but on a sample piece they showed up really dark, and didn’t show the texture that well. It’s a little too late to do boiled linseed oil.
What would you recommend?
I had a similar project that puzzled me. I took a blow torch to that fucker to bring out the grain then gave it a generous coat of amber shellac. It's now my favorite Magic card box.
Picture? That sounds like a neat effect.