Mr. Rogowski,
I have a project, a dining table, with an ebonized walnut riser that sits atop the rails/aprons and each of the 3″x3″ square legs. The legs are made of 1/2″ x 3″ pieces of various hardwoods and bamboo ply laminated together. After everything was glued up, I was touching up the mitered corner of the ebonized piece and (even after taping off the bamboo) some of the anyline dye bled into one of the bamboo pieces(the edge grain). Do you have any suggestions on how to fix/cover/remove the black I got in/on the bamboo? I used bleach for the same problem I had on my signature night table top and it worked well. Not sure if this would work in this case because the walnut is right up against the bamboo.
Here is a photo: http://www.michaellobby.com/wild.html
Thank you from your former student and current starving artist,
Michael Lobby
Edited 4/9/2008 4:48 pm ET by lobbster
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Hi Michael,
I couldn't really see the problem in the photo but my sense is that you need to get yourself some fine brushes. Try the bleach first and try not to hit the walnut. When that doesn't work, even though you mask off the walnut, then you head back with a small fine tipped artist brush to start putting color back in. Make up some sample boards with bamboo and walnut and start to experiment with colors. It might be just an ebonizing solution that's required, it might be some stain or universal tints to put the walnut color back and then carefully turn that black.
But if masking didn't work the first time, it may not again. So you have to be more careful, bleach out the dye and paint in your color.
And once you get the dye out of the bamboo, mask off the walnut, and finish the bamboo with a coat or two of shellac. Then mask the bamboo and put the color back into the walnut. Good luck. Gary
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