Color; what to do when you parts don't match

Color.  Sometimes we need to adjust the color.

In making Handles for shave bowls, sometimes we have to use regular maple instead of spalted.  Luckily, we have a source in Maine that rescues wood from a toy manufacturing plant and we can take those scraps in still make a wooden handle that is still up cycled from wood that could potentially end up in the trash.

The only "problem" is that the wood is light maple without any spalting.

So, the non color of the handle is much lighter than the bottom and would look hinkey.  In several handles are quite different than the bowls' lids:

The next posts will describe different ways to even out the color and it will produce handles that beautifully match the bowls and their tops.