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    Quote Originally Posted by doug3030 View Post
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    Why are you even replying to this thread. First time joke sure enough but twice?!?

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    If you are applying stain to just the spline, a small artists brush would do the job nicely.

    To stain the entire frame while the splines have been masked off would be best done by spraying.

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    Geez, yooze blokes make everything sound so hard!

    Yes, the dye tints right through. I just use my wifes good sealable containers. Mix up a bit of strong dye sauce, toss in the veneers overnight, dry and presto..... Aaaannnd the containers now are mine! Magic

    You can use a vacuum pot and heat to speed it up.

    Rit dye works fine. I'll edit this post with the ones I use, I can't remember their names.

    Edit 1: Jacquard and Dylon. The big pods are excellent https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D58VWXY/

    You can also borrow a technique knife makers and luthiers use - coloured cardboard from the newsagent!

    The stack veneer, cardboard, white paper, carbon fibre, plastics, anything (!) and make a sandwich of it all, glued up with epoxy.

    One can also buy coloured veneers from billiard que maker places. I'll find my saved links later.

    Edit 2: https://www.cueveneer.com/ocart2/dyed-veneer

    edit 3: https://www.dyed-veneer.com/Dyed-Wood-Veneer-s/139.htm
    Tabu veneers: https://www.tabu.it/
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    I thought to add, I've a few good places to buy dyed veneer. Mabu Italy is one, supplied through Briggs. Capital Crispin UK is another :

    Check this out : https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx97p3RFvBD/

    I've a few others if anyone is interested in dyed veneers.

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    if you can use shellac as a primer on splines this will stop any bleed that may occur and stop glue from changing the stain.

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    I think personally if I was going to attempt these I would try cutting mine from coloured acrylic sheet, It really needs to be something where the color runs through the spline and not something painted or stained afterwards. The photos looks very fake to me as if photoshopped !

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    ok... the program you will need that would best be able to produce the Graphics you desire would be Adobe Illustrator Draw , part of the Adobe Suite, The Vector drawing that is produced in that program can then be easily modified in Illustrator , Photoshop or other CAD Programs - the ability to produce high quality artwork like this is so much easier than what it has been previously..... this is a graphic - not a Photo have been following Unitedmeasures for ages - Great Artist

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    I'd wax the sides before inserting the splines. Then when the glue has gone off and you've trimmed them, you should be able to stain the splines. (Note, this is my theory - I've never actually done it with the splines, but it does stop glue squeeze-out penetrating.)

    Mind you, I'm inclined to try those dyes Woodpixel suggests - I have a job that needs some vivid colours coming up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jools13 View Post
    this is a graphic - not a Photo have been following Unitedmeasures for ages - Great Artist
    It's a photo of a real product. zoom in at 500% and you can see it includes tearout in the frames. The porous nature of the end grain from the splines, in which half has been completely filled with the blue pigment. You can even see the brush marks left behind when they applied the blue pigment. If you look really closely and know what you are looking at, look at the two small blue dowels. You should be able to see how the blue pigment was applied as a droplet and formed a slight mound when drying. Gum vein in another of the splines, etc etc etc etc.

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    Im going to make the assumption that those suggesting the splines were photoshopped dont know how to use photoshop and therefore can't tell why the picture looks 'fake'. Yes one can easily change the colour of anything in PS but the reason why this picture looks fake is because of the even lighting (therefore lack of shadows and frames not being 'grounded') and close to absolute white foreground/background. Thats why it looks fake. (An no, illustrator is not the correct software one would use to do this)

    Regardless on whether it looks fake or not, this technique is done all the time from picture framers. Either staining the splines and not the frame or vice versa. Can we just talk about woodworking and the techniques one may use to do this?

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    Could it be just a nice paint job after the joint is completed?

    Does it look natural to you?

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