creativity a flowing.. some more idea input

[Bradford]

Okay.. thanks for the response on all my other post.  Now, I have got some really neat idea's but need some more input.

First is about dying a riser. Here is a pic of a riser I am working on...



I started this with the intent of dying or staining the maple (light color) black.  I took a cut off piece from the riser and played a bit.  The thing I am running into is getting the dye/stain not to run into the blood wood.  The block of wood was to big to soak in stain before forming.  

Any ideas???  I have some other cool color patterns I want to try, but need to come up with a way to do this coloring idea.  Black I know I could do with Ebony, but that can get expensive.  And my other color ideas include blues and whites.. so I have to find a way to do this.


Another cool idea I have is adding some cosmetic holes in the handle.  You see all these cool bows (Hoyt recurves) with lighting holes in them.  Now I know they are using metal, but was wondering if the holes where kept small enough, would the wood hold up?  Anyone ever try this.  

I have a thing of mixing "new" style with "trad" bows.  So.. just having fun.

Thanks for ideas!

[Stiks-n-Strings]

might try taping of the maple and sealing the other woods with ca or something and then remove the tape and stain your maple.

Just a thought.

I really don't know but where there is a will there is a way.

Good looking riser but you may want to resize your pics before they get pulled.

Stiks

[K30bowfisher]

Those holes will be 2x to 3x stress concentrations wherever they are drilled. If you sleeve them with something strong like metal tubing or carbon arrow shafting it should work just fine and still leave you with a through hole in your riser.

[John Cooper]

I think it looks wonderful as is!  As the osage darkens, you'll end up with a great contrast between it and the light maple.  That's just my 2 cents.  Try wiping it with some denatured alcohol to see what it looks like with finish.  You might like it that way, too.

~John

[dfrois]

I have used stains, on wood, that could be applied with a cotton swab. Would that be sufficiently precise for your application? Most of them do not go very deep into the wood, so any small runoff could maybe be removed with light sanding...just an idea.

DF

[Bivyhunter]

Dyes or stains will bleed under the tape. It works well for keeping the bulk of the color off, but expect it. I'd use a really small hobby brush to "paint" the edges with as dry a brush as possible.