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Yep, that's the plan. Both pieces are getting cleaned as much as possible before the splice work. I have Fiebings dyes; Dark Brown, Walnut, Chocolate, Show Brown , but with these is fire and forget because once you get them into the wood there is no coming back. With oil based stains mixed with BLO and Turpentine there is a good degree of undo available if things don't go well. I will do some trial and error on a scrap piece first of course.