First of all, I'll set my experiment.
I've been using iron acetate as a background for my carvings, kind of a warm brown to me, which I feels set the carving up. It works by turning the tannic acid in the wood dark. I bought some "Mixed Tannins (powder extract) from ChemCenter on Amazon. I've heard that it is used in ebonizing wood.
To do the experiment I mixed 1/4 teas. of the powder extract with 4ml of warm water. as a starting point. I used the wood I carve on the most, basswood, The pictures I've included start with the plain basswood on top of picture one, then with it painted with just the iron acetate. In the preceding pictures, each block has another 4ml added to the previous solution of powder extract.
To me, the shading went from black to a weather Barnwood gray and would have gone even lighter gray if I hadn't tired of making a mess.
Any questions, don't heitate.
I've been using iron acetate as a background for my carvings, kind of a warm brown to me, which I feels set the carving up. It works by turning the tannic acid in the wood dark. I bought some "Mixed Tannins (powder extract) from ChemCenter on Amazon. I've heard that it is used in ebonizing wood.
To do the experiment I mixed 1/4 teas. of the powder extract with 4ml of warm water. as a starting point. I used the wood I carve on the most, basswood, The pictures I've included start with the plain basswood on top of picture one, then with it painted with just the iron acetate. In the preceding pictures, each block has another 4ml added to the previous solution of powder extract.
To me, the shading went from black to a weather Barnwood gray and would have gone even lighter gray if I hadn't tired of making a mess.

Any questions, don't heitate.
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