I’m looking for suggestions on making faux holly out of soft maple or similar light colored hardwood by bleaching.
I’ve got a band saw/lathe project involving bending/interlacing strips of light colored wood such as holly or a clone. I’ve already glued up & turned a prototype out of a stack of glued Baltic plywood rounds instead of purpleheat just to prove the concept & to prove I can cold bend/glue soft maple into 6” dia bends. It looks very doable.
The strips of maple I do have are 20” x 0.043” (same as my band-saw kerf) x 2”, that I want to inlay into a 2” thick block of a purpleheart 11” round turning blank.
What I’ve seen suggested by Googling “bleaching wood” seem to suggest a surface treatment. I’m hoping to bleach all the way through the thin striping as I’ve got to remove most of the wood anyway when turning. So I need to bleach through & through the 0.043” thick strips before I cut & glue up the blank.
BTW- I did see some VERY thin white veneer at Woodcraft. But it was too short of length & 5+ times too thin to fill the saw blade gap to keep the grain straight in the purpleheart.
Thoughts?
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