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Lovely Flame Maple Deluxe Cabinet. 320 XF sanding, 3 coats of natural Tung Oil each followed by 0000 steel wool. Final polish of Beeswax/Carauba and hand buffed.
It's hard to see in pictures, but the 'flames' practically jump out at you in real life.

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Great looking cab.

Your hardwood cabs are works of art

Thanks Jack. As you can imagine, there's a lot of finishing work that goes into a cabinet like this. Elapsed time much longer too 'cause you wait [up to 24 hours] between coats. Yours took 4 coats!!

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Hmmmm! Wonder what that maple in my back yard looks like on the inside?

That cabinet looks great!

That is a nice looking cab Stephen, I must see what Australian woods would work, maybe Sheoak or Blackwood

Oh, I keep looking for exotics. Really like JamesO Koa!

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I came across this site a while back. http://www.exotic-woods.com/

They've got thousands of varieties and they're local (Burlington). I've never bought from them so I don't know what their service is like but they sure do have some nice dead trees.

By the way, nice looking cab Stephen. Very classy.

Pictures of a Customer build using the Flame Maple Cabinet.













Note: This was not built from a Trinity Deluxe Kit.

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Wickedly good looking cab. I was, however, wondering about the orange drops there.

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He built his own board and sourced his own parts. Orange drops, like the Atoms are over rated anyway.

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How did I miss this??? I love it, Stephen! Another oil I like is Maloof's.

Legin, blackwood is an acacia and looks a LOT like koa (another acacia).

I have a few ideas I think would be fun to try and don't think I'll try the solid koa again. Using veneers is definitely more cost effective and the highest figured woods go to the veneer cutters.

Imagine an acoustic amp or preamp with a spruce baffle. Or an electric cab with highly figured walnut? I looked at James Krenov's site last night, which didn't help me any. A lacewood cabinet would be awesome too.

A trick for getting flame to really pop out is to stain it with a coat of a darker stain and sand it off. Flame is end grain, so the stain stays in the flame and not the wood around it. A coat of something that wets the wood also makes it pop. Shellac has that effect, as does the Z-poxy pore filler I like from lmii.com. I used the Z on that koa. Of course each seal, so you can't use the oil finish. When oiling, applying the oil with a fine scotchbrite pad and really rubbing it in (as if your sanding) has a burnishing effect and pops the figure out a little, too.

Gosh, as that ages, it's really going to be something.

Thanks. I'll have to try that trick for getting flame to really pop using the stain.

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Definitely. For a natural look, darker browns work well. The flame is going to have a similar color value as the stain, so it needs to be something to think about when picking a color.