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Jeff Oliphant writes:
Out of my current array of work for a client, I have an interesting project
involving color matching. I thought this challenge interesting enough
to post for discussion and I welcome advice.
Most of my work is furniture design and fabrication, structural and spot repair.
However, this one involves a complete color change of a mahagony table
to match a set of chairs of completely different color.
The table is fairly vibrant red mahagony and the chairs are a medium brown tone
that I do not come accross often. Most likely the generic term "fruitwood" applies.
I am thinking that I will not have to bleach in order to achieve the target tone.
I believe that with the high red value on the mahagony, that possibly
a green toner would combine with the red to take me towards the brown.
I am planning on a shellac sealer for reversability, followed by dye toning,
followed by final finish, shellac or laquer, leaning towards shellac
simply because almost ALL of the many pieces I have worked on
for this client have shellac finish.
The table is displayed with mineral spirits wipe just to show color.
The client had taken some time to decide whether to match
the chairs or keep the beautiful mahagony tone.
The chair is a sample that I will use to match the color.
I could really use the expertise of those of you
who have already tackled extreme color changes like this.
-Jeff Oliphant
Atlanta GA