I'm making a small box, similar to this:
out of curly cherry with a recessed lid of curly maple and I want to pop the grain.
I've used transtint dye and sealcoat on maple before to get a nice pop but I've never worked with curly cherry before and I'm not sure how to get a similar effect.
reading elsewhere it seems tung oil is good finish to bring out the figure in cherry but I'm not sure you'll get the same pop with the maple.
do you prefinish the maple and cherry separately then assemble and finish up with a wipe-on poly or do you treat them the same and use what; to get a good pop from the figured wood?

out of curly cherry with a recessed lid of curly maple and I want to pop the grain.
I've used transtint dye and sealcoat on maple before to get a nice pop but I've never worked with curly cherry before and I'm not sure how to get a similar effect.
reading elsewhere it seems tung oil is good finish to bring out the figure in cherry but I'm not sure you'll get the same pop with the maple.
do you prefinish the maple and cherry separately then assemble and finish up with a wipe-on poly or do you treat them the same and use what; to get a good pop from the figured wood?