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I’m somewhat new to woodworking and I’m planning on doing some live edge tables. My issue is I don’t have enough experience reading wood grain so that I’m able to predict what kind of color will come out of a slab once it’s finished. As I’m meandering through the local mill is there anything acceptable I can do to the slabs that will reveal their finished coloring? I know you can wet a slab and bring out it’s color but I hardly think you should do that to one that’s already been dried. Or maybe brush on a little sanding sealer…but that’d probably be frowned upon.
Any suggestions?
The place where I get mine uses a squirt bottle of water.
I don’t know if they do that on their kiln dried wood, Since they offer that service now.
Either way, a little bit of water won’t hurt.
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