The blatant multicolors (the brown eye and the brown band around the top) are different woods. The brown is butternut, which looks a lot like walnut from a distance, but is softer and has beautiful grain (though the swirls of the grain are a pain to work with, because planes and scrapers have to be worked with the grain (like rubbing a cat's fur the right way) and the grain keeps changing direction.) I hope the walnut trim (gunwales, thwarts, seat) will match the butternut stripes reasonably well, but it's hard to be sure until everything is varnished.
The light wood in the hull is white pine, which has a number of different shades and grain patterns, which I did my best to match on both sides of the canoe. However those patterns are subtler and don't show in this picture.
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Date: 2010-09-08 02:50 am (UTC)The light wood in the hull is white pine, which has a number of different shades and grain patterns, which I did my best to match on both sides of the canoe. However those patterns are subtler and don't show in this picture.