Hi Everyone! I'm getting ready to build some bookcases, and have a fair amount of rough cut cherry on hand, but am planning on making the cases out of birch cabinet grade ply (cherry ply is waaay too spendy for me). Anyway, I'll be finishing the bookcases in one of three Minwax colors, cherry, heritage cherry, or natural, with Tung oil and paste wax after that. -Haven't decided on the stain color yet, but it'll be one of those three, and regardless, I have to somehow get the ply to resemble cherry. I tried before on a 12 drawer chest I made, and wasn't pleased with the results at all. Does anyone have any good tips for doing this? I imagine lots of you have done similar projects...
THanks!