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Doesn't help that the water based lacquer that I had sprayed on top got a blueish tint with age, nor that it sunk into the wood a bit. I'll try to take some pics at some point.
I think an oil finish would probably have looked better, if I was doing it again I would try that.
I would be worried that the first coat might mess up the burst though, so I would probably spray a coat of shellac to seal it first.
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Ref the difference between stains and dyes, the finishing suppliers have done the usual trick of confusing the hell out of everyone. It used to be simple - stain did just that. It soaked into the wood giving it colour and varnish covered the stain. And you could also get coloured varnish.
Then - and bloody irritating the first few times you got caught out - some of the well known suppliers started marketing stuff as 'stain' that was basically an acrylic-based coloured varnish. And with nothing on the tin to explain what it is you are buying. I have ended up over the years with so many expensive cans of wrong stuff I could never use that I now don't buy any of their products.
So now you have to proceed with caution with anything termed a 'stain', because it might or might not be. Stuff classed as dye, at the moment, is more likely to be the right stuff (if you want a soak into the grain colouring) until the b******s no doubt change that too.
Very cheap, massive range of shades, very mixable.
Downside is that you really don't want to get isopropanol on your hands or breathe the fumes. Almost instant hangover. And a bad one.
I am now trying to find somewhere that'll sell me IMS... otherwise it's back to using vodka as the solvent!
they are easy to use and mix well with oil, acetone, alcohol, anything except water. And a little goes a long way.. I also bout analine dye powder off an eBay seller in Orange and that stuff worked well and its easy to make up stock solutions from dye powder.
Just remembered its mosers natural cherry, the lmi stuff is the same stuff just branded I think
Virtually all the red went out of a burst i did within a couple of weeks and hardly any sun, did come out nice though
I did show the fading in a thread I did ages ago
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