"Cubby" wrote in message
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"CraigT" wrote in message
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I made some shelves to go over a window in my bedroom out of cherry. I
applied some shellac to a piece of scrap and it's obvious that I'm going
to need to stain it to get that typical dark cherry that I'm looking for.
Is there something at the home centers that'll do this or am I going to
have to order something online to get that dark cherry I'm looking for out
of this cherry?

Thanks,
~Craig


Most would call staining Cherry blasphemous (including myself)! Let
the sun do it's work. And if you don't have time to let them sit in the
sun for a couple of days, they will
darken naturally anyway even in the house, albeit slower than if they were
in direct sunlight.
Cheers,
cc


I thought the darkening of cherry was an oxidation thing, not a uv thing.
In fact, I remember reading in a FWW that sunlight will actually *bleach*
cherrry. Now I have to go find the issue where I saw that......

Issue was may/june 2000, article was by Jeff Jewitt. I was only partially
right. Sun and oxidation to darken, but cherry left in direct sunlight for
extended periods of time will bleach. Guess my memory wasn't as good as I
thought. At least I think it's not.... dang, now I can't remember.....

jc