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A customer in Boise asked me to match a finish from a 1920s photo
They brought in a blurry black and white picture of their grandma's dresser, wanting the exact same dark amber tone. I spent a full day mixing shellac with tiny amounts of walnut dye and burnt umber pigment, testing on scrap pine. When I finally got it right under the shop lights, they looked at it and just said, 'That's her.' Has anyone else had to work from just a photo? How do you handle the color guesswork?
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