Turns out maple is pretty hard to stain.here is everything i t.

Stained maple butcher block. This maple end grain butcher block counter top was custom made to the customer's specifications. This counter top is a whopping 7 feet long and almost 3 feet wide! The one thing you can use to stain butcher block is concentrate of black tea.

Hard maple has a high janka hardness rating, approximately 1,450 lbf. The appropriate finish for a surface that will be used for cutting is a fortified mineral oil finish. If you are starting with fresh butcher block, not a slab that is being refinished, you won’t need.

This is my third attempt. I'm working on a maple butcher block countertop and needed to stain it darker for a friend. This is high enough that it.

Dry time is 10 hours; Sanding the wood to 600 grit exacerbated the problem by burnishing the surface of the wood; Blotchy stain on hard maple butcher block countertop.

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Rendering it even less able to absorb the stain than if you had stopped sanding at. If you try to apply that poly finish onto oily wood,. Maple is arguably the most commonly used wood to make butcher block.