Wood substitute needed
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The plan calls for yellow heart or mora. I don’t have either.  What would be a good substitute?  I’m making a layered cross as a gift for a neighbor. I’m not familiar with either of those woods.
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I used some yellowheart a number of years ago.  It was straight-grained and a pale/pastel yellow.  If I needed to substitute for it, I might find a light piece of poplar and dye it pale yellow.  Basswood would also be a potential dyed substitute.

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I had to look up mora in the wood database.  From the pics, I think I might try to substitute a medium brown uniformly-grained piece of walnut.

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#8
Thanks, the more I look at the pic of the plan the less I see a need for either.  I think your suggestions are great.  Have both popular and tons of walnut.  These are the base pieces of the cross and I'm thinking the poplar undyed would also work.  Since I have yellow Transtint will do a scrap piece and see which I like best.
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(03-17-2021, 08:10 PM)stoppy Wrote: The plan calls for yellow heart or mora. I don’t have either.  What would be a good substitute?  I’m making a layered cross as a gift for a neighbor. I’m not familiar with either of those woods.

Yellowheart and Mora are very different colored woods and prices as well.  

Like waxman said use popler and dye it and mora is a brown colored wood and a sub for that would be walnut except mora is so pretty but then again so is a nice piece of walnut
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#10
Those are two very different woods, except that there is such a thing as yellow mora. As a yellow heart substitute, I'd consider osage orange or canary wood.
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