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   Napie | Sep 11, 2007 03:47am | #1

   Silly question but why teak ply?  Walnut ply would have been a lot less money.  I’m not sure you can get the teak to look like walnut, the grain patterns are a lot different and it just doesn’t stain well in my experience.  You might have better luck with birch or maple ply.

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   JamesS | Sep 11, 2007 04:45am | #2

   Napie: Easy to answer,  the Teak was free & I have lots of walnut boards. I thought the teak would be a good match.

   Thans for reponding

   JamesS

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   Napie | Sep 11, 2007 05:04am | #3

   That is a great reason!

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   [email protected] | Sep 11, 2007 07:01am | #4

   I think you can get close to the color with Watco Danish in Dark Walnut, with a little red added.  Can't really say as I'm color blind, and the younger brother who can blend paints to match by eye better than the color matching computer systems, did it for me the only time I ever wanted it done.  It took him literally a couple of weeks, the advantage / disadvantage of using the Watco blend was it didn't add much at a time so he could keep from getting things too dark, but it took lots of coats to get there. 

   One of those things I did back when I was younger and dumber, was to meld two set of Cado walls system components into one.  The one set was teak, the other walnut, and the younger brother was sure he could make them match.  And, everyone told me the color did match, but the grain was glaringly wrong to my eye. 

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   JamesS | Sep 12, 2007 02:39am | #5

   Thanks, I'll try that on a scrap pc.

   JamesS

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   [email protected] | Sep 12, 2007 06:33am | #6

   I just double checked, he used mostly "bulletin red", but there was a little raw umber, and burnt sienna in there too.