So I tried to make a magnet strip to hang up my knives in the kitchen out of plywood scraps.
It's basically just a piece of wood with some holes that hold magnets and then I glued some veneer on top.
In the process I also used a file which lost a bunch of metal dust. This got attracted by the magnets and formed these ugly black dots where the magnets were on the veneer.
To save it I wanted to stain the whole thing black. So I mixed some black pigment with linseed oil and stained the wood. Unfortunately the black pigment was also magnetic and stained the places where the magnets are blacker than the rest. So you can still see these dots on the pictures. It is a little better than before.
Should I leave it as it is or just paint the whole thing with a solid color?
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