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?
Not a woodworker but could you oil it, pour clear epoxy, sand flat and re-oil? That'll keep the 3d effect to some degree.
How do you mean? My assumption is that the epoxy will completely fill the engraving. And because it’s opaque, it’ll look like a flat layer on the outside.
Ah, thought it was clear epoxy.