Attendance: Paul, Miles, Chris, Him Hiltz, Jim MacNeil, Rick macDonald
Everyone had a piece of wood and we practiced various methods of staining.
Various approaches can be used to get a good result:
Sanding the wood to a fine finish is important regardless of methods used.
Coat with clear dewaxed shellac
Let dry: then begin to build layers of stain
Add a WATER based vinyl stain (Clear varnish) : use a good brush
wait several minutes
wipe off gingerly and let dry
Coat this layer with an OIL based stain, wait a few minutes and wipe off and let dry
Repeat with the WATER based stain until the color is right
(The reason for alternating is because adding water based stain over a water based stained layer just results in dissolving the first layer: same for the oil based layer so alternating the Oil and Water based stains gives the best result)
Finally dry overnight and coat with clear shellac by spray gun using a low pressure
Alternatively:
Coat wood with Bond or the Vinyl first
Let dry
Coat with water-based stain;- wipe off after a few minuted and let dry
Coat with Oil based stain; wait a few minuted and wipe off- let dry
Re-coat with the water base stain until you get the right color
Finally spray on clear shellac after an overnight dry
Leo put a piece of wood immersed in water for 5 days that he had shellaced and the finish remains hard and dry!
For wood with voids:
Coat with Clear shellac
Use a shellac -cabosil mix brushed on to fill in the voids
Proceed to stain as above
Hint: Adding a little Ammonia to a water stain makes the stain eat into the wood better when the wood is pre-treated with the vinyl or shellac layer: Otherwise the stain does not penetrate and will wipe off completely
Leo gave all hands a bottle of Ammonia
Paul gave all hands a supply of Acupuncture needles.
We might find a use for them in the New year projects
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