Colouring wood?

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Hi!

Is there anyone who can give me advice on how to colour wood
(birch for example) so that the colour gets through all the way?

Hope someone can help me!
//John
 
When you see wood that has color penetrated through what you're seeing is stabilized wood where the person stabilizing used a colored resin.

Very lovely in my opinion. :)
 
Sure, but it requires special equipment. If you search youtube with criteria "wood, stabilized, pen turning" you should find some useful vids. Someone somewhere (on a pen turners forum) sells a kit that looks to include a large glass chamber and associated fittings, and possibly the resin, but I don't believe he includes a pump for vacuum.

Pretty in stuff.

Oh! I just remembered a video where a guy used a pickle jar and a brake bleeder from Harbor Freight to draw vacuum. I believe that guy used a product from Minwax to stabilize with. It looked like it worked pretty well. You'd add dye to the resin/Minwax and go from there. Could possibly work really well. If you try it please let me know how it works. I have the exact bleeder in the video and I'd love to make some cool dyed wood too. ;)
 
Or you could just research "Pakkawood."
It's birch that is dyed in thin sections for coplete penetration, then laminated for thickness. It is available in many colors and color combinations.
And it's cheap.
 
I have a pickle jar with an ejector nozzle for creating vacuum and I thought I'd try and color the wood with what in Sweden is called narvsvärta (don't know the English word for it). It's the stuff you use to color learher.
 
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