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Filed under: Quick Polls — Tom March 23, 2008 @ 5:05 am

Wood stain…

• I use it to unify the wood color in my project
• I use it to make cheap wood look more expensive
• I use it for artistic purposes
• I use it to hide boo boos
• I use it to find all the glue splotches I didn’t clean well enough
• I use it, but I’m not sure why
• No thanks, I’ll use naturally colored wood
• It’s the work of the devil himself!
• Other (please list in comments)

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1. Norm, is that you?? Seriously though, NYW has made an art out of the use of stain– but lets face it, I’ve learned a ton from him and the show and have the world’s respect for both.

   Unless I am doing something with a great difference between shades of the same type/species of wood (cherry for example) I leave it natural, though I’m about to try some on a mahagony book case to even out the color.

   Lawrence

   Comment by Lawrence — March 23, 2008 @ 11:00 am

2. Hey Tom,

   I prefer not to stain, if at all possible, and I particularly try to avoid reddish stains. My Ol’man use to say,

   “Red stain, red faces.”

   Tom

   Comment by tms — March 23, 2008 @ 5:41 pm

3. I try to get by without stains unless I’m try in match a new piece with something someone else has already stained…as in adding a kitchen cabinet to the ones already in the kitchen from when the house was built.
   I use BLO or Tung oil to make grain pop and follow with protective coats/coat of lacquer or varnish.
   If I need to add color to something I’m building I use dyes as in a dark dye too bring out the figure in curly maple.

   Comment by John Gray — March 23, 2008 @ 10:36 pm

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