I've got a 4 inch wide by 9 inch tall clock. Picking out the wood for the background thick piece is easy. I like walnut or mahagoney. My problem is to find the 1/4 inch thick piece of wood that has the flowers and humming birds on it and also surrounds the whole clock in front. It seems like all the wood I look at is way too light. I don't like that black and whilte look in contrast. I'd like to find a shade of the background wood and use something like that but I can't find any. Can I take something like maple or ash and just stain it the color I want it to be. Is there a wood that you can use to do that with all the time? I could always make the front the same as the background too but I wanted it too look a little different. I saw some satinwood that was bright yellow but I think it might be a bit bright. I love bright colors and wouldnt hesitate using with purpleheart if I could keep the colors bright on it. I just dont know if the diff between the walnut and the yellow would be too much. Well if anyone can enlighten me on the staining issue and I can find certain names of woods I can stain any color it would help alot. anything you guys know would help alot

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