need to dye a wood bright yellow

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

I'm thinking an alalyine dye and maple.

I have to make another box for a child's magic rock and she wants it "lellow" and spherical and on a conical base sort of like but not exactly like her older sister's (here: http://tinyurl.com/5ecthp).

I'm looking for a real strong brilliant yellow dye that I can put a clear coat over.

Any suggestions about the dye?

Holly would be the first choice for wood but that'll be in short supply so I'm thinking maple will be the next best wood species - unless there is a yellow wood.
Is there a yellow wood?

[glenn bradley]

Transtint 'Lemon Yellow' is pretty abrupt. I don't buy from here
but the 'enlarge' pic at the top right is a good show of the color.

[Dewey Torres]

http://www.veneersupplies.com/produc...68018e7c815e45

Didn't notice but you beat me to it

Sorry

[Ed Sallee]

How about using a piece of yellowheart..... no dye necessary?

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

As Woody Harrolson said to Cheech Martin just before Cheech blew Woody's pal's head clean off (one of my favorite scenes)

MOO-CHOSE GRASS-EE-ASS

[Larry Fox]

Yep - Yellow TransTint. There are good pictures on Homestead's site. If you can score some Tiger Maple for the box the TransTint really makes it pop. Well definitely "take it to 11" (one of MY favorite scenes).

[Stan Smith]

I wanted yellow in a project onec, so I used osage orange. It was a nice medium yellow at first but has now turned brown. I used spray lacquer as a fninsih. I've tried alkaline dyes but I had too much grain raised with them. Let us know who the transtint works.

[Richard M. Wolfe]

It's a shame that both mulberry and osage orange age from brilliant yellow to brown fairly fast. What I think would probably work well is to make your piece from a very light colored wood (maple or birch) and then use wood bleach on it. After bleaching and neutralizing the bleach sand lightly as the grain will be raised and then as suggested use the yellow trans-tint dye.

[David DeCristoforo]

Yellow dye...good. But, also, there is "yellowheart", AKA "Pau Amarello", sometimes sold (erroneously) as "satinwood". This wood is very yellow to begin with and if you were to hit it with a yellow dye, you could get all the way to !!!YELLOW!!!

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

Yellow dye...good. But, also, there is "yellowheart", AKA "Pau Amarello", sometimes sold (erroneously) as "satinwood". This wood is very yellow to begin with and if you were to hit it with a yellow dye, you could get all the way to !!!YELLOW!!!

Hmm well a quick google doesn't show any one who sells it.

It's often got a high figure - so I read.
I rather suspect that "grain" isn't going to be the deal with this box. It's got to be round or at least mostly oval would be OK. That means that it's going to be a glue up or a striper that gets turned. That'll wreck havoc with most lovely grains I should guess. I bet I can could cooper this up from curved sections with a flat face like I'd get from a jig in a rounter table setup. That'd let grain show.

The little sweetie even told me what she wanted for a base and how it should open.

And it has to be "Lellow"

[Tony Joyce]

is in stock at Steve Wall Lumber 4/4 & maybe 8/4.

Tony Joyce

[David DeCristoforo]

"...a quick google doesn't show any one who sells it.."

Maybe you need to try a slower "google". I come up with lots. Here's just one:

http://www.exoticwoodgroup.com/order_yellowheart.htm

[Jay Jolliffe]

Brazilian satin wood is pretty yellow, at least what i have is....

[john bateman]

One of the colors in Constantine's aniline dye powder sampler pack is very yellow. And you get 6 other colors along with it.
http://www.constantines.com/index.as...OD&ProdID=2002

[Tim Sproul]

or another wood besides holly, bleach the wood first.

A 2 part wood bleach to remove any natural color from the wood. Maple and other lighter woods eventually darken some over time. This darkening will also happen with dyed wood. Prevent or minimize the natural color change by treating the wood with a 2-part wood bleach before you dye the wood yellow.