Restoring sun burnt wood

[Springb0ks]

Hi all, hopefully you can see the attached picture. The colour in the middle is the normal colour of the table. The colour on the left is where the sun has burnt it red. Does anyone have any advice to how to get it back to the original colour? The wood is solid acacia wood.

Picture hopefully attached this time.

I guess it has faded from sunlight on the exposed part, and the dark part was not exposed.

You can use wood dyes such as Colron (the spirit based, NOT the refined water one which is rubbish), and also other brands which look and smell suspiciously similar.

You will have to strip off all wax, oil and varnish first. So only try if you are sure yours is solid not veneered.

As yours is in edge-glued board you have more chance of blending in the colours by doing contiguous boards in slightly different dyes so that they are not all the same colour

Here are some I did earlier.

I used a particularly dark tint where there was a join between two different timbers, so the eye would not be drawn to similar, but mismatched, colours.

Thanks for your response. The light bit is actually the original wood and the darker, almost red bit is the colour that it has turned to.