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charkbait.

Just so happens I have been re-doing my steering console too. I added new Mahogony to the older stuff and they did not match. What I did was use a darker stain for the whole console and allowed the stain to stay on the newer, lighter wood longer then on the older and darker wood before wiping it off. As you can see in the Project Album link on this site, the new wood and older wood match exactly.