Revealing the wood

[bradleyheathhays]

I'm somewhat new to woodworking and I'm planning on doing some live edge tables.  My issue is I don't have enough experience reading wood grain so that I'm able to predict what kind of color will come out of a slab once it's finished.  As I'm meandering through the local mill is there anything acceptable I can do to the slabs that will reveal their finished coloring?  I know you can wet a slab and bring out it's color but I hardly think you should do that to one that's already been dried.  Or maybe brush on a little sanding sealer...but that'd probably be frowned upon.

 

Any suggestions?

[Mordekyle]

The place where I get mine uses a squirt bottle of water.

I don’t know if they do that on their kiln dried wood, Since they offer that service now.

Either way, a little bit of water won’t hurt.


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