I will be making a dining table top using shop sawn myrtlewood veneer. The wood has nice brown and blue/gray tones but too many yellow tones for the customer so I would like to tone down the yellow. It would be OK to enhance the other tones in the process but it is also OK if they stay as they are. Reading about colors, it seems that violet is used to neutralize yellow but I don’t know if this applies to my problem or how to go about it. I usually use Minwax Polycrylic or Polyurethane for my finishes (depending on the wood), and try to avoid dyes and stains, but I think this will require more than my usual skill set. Any suggestions?
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If you have a section of the veneer with the yellowish color that you’re NOT using on the table top I’d suggest experimenting with it. My first suggestion would be just to use the finish you plan to use for the table top and see what that does to the unwanted color. Then you can go from there. Currently I’m working with a two piece panel of myrtlewood that I’m using for an occasional table. I used some dyes to create a better match between the two pieces that I joined for the top. To get the dyes to blend better I used my sander to take most of the color off. While dyes do go deeper into wood than most stains they can still be sanded off. Whatever you do I’d suggest showing a sample to your customer to get their approval before working on the actual top.
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