Brian Gray
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Joined: 2004-01-21
Location: Sandusky, OH
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Here's what I would do in this situation.
No contact cement....ever, in my opinion. I can't think of a furniture situation where contact cement is the preferred adhesive over unibond, epoxy, or yellow glue. Contact cement just wont hold up over time the same. The only situation that I could think of using contact cement is where you need a quick assembly, and you don't care if it falls apart in a year (it's happened to me.)
As far as the color of your maple.....
If you are inlaying, it's nearly impossible to inlay without sanding or planing and get it perfect. The best strategy is to purposely make your inlay a little bit proud, and then sand or plane flush.
That being said, I understand your dying problem.
I wouldn't bother dying before assembly. Once your maple inlay is sanded flush, just wipe on some dark shellac on both the inlay, as well as the background. Dark shellac gives figured maple that color that you're after, and it probably won't change your background significantly, depending on what it is.
I would wipe on some dark shellac on a scrap of your maple, and then a scrap of your background as well, to see how it looks colored with this.
After wiping a coat of dark shellac to color, then finish however you want.
My 2 cents, I'm sure that there's other ways...
bg
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