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Re: Strip: staining
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 11/2/2011, 2:12 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: staining (Mike Bielski)

: No dye will make wood lighter, only darker. Even amber or
: fruitwood. You're best off using a light-colored wood and dyeing
: it darker or leaving it alone. Bleaching is kind of messy and if
: you use the peroxide they use for floors, quite dangerous to
: anything it touches. I don't like it.

: m

Oxalic acid is pretty safe, still want to wear gloves but at worst it just itches if you get it on your skin.

Have used a bunch of it for bleaching out the gray in varnished mahogany that's had the varnish go bad.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: staining
Dwight Lynn -- 10/29/2011, 6:49 pm
Re: Strip: staining
Bill Hamm -- 10/30/2011, 2:19 am
Re: Strip: staining
Bill Hamm -- 10/30/2011, 2:45 am
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Dwight Lynn -- 10/30/2011, 3:27 pm
Re: Strip: staining
Bill Hamm -- 10/31/2011, 1:50 am
Re: Strip: staining
Mike Bielski -- 10/30/2011, 9:08 am
Re: Strip: staining
Oliver Bloch -- 10/30/2011, 11:10 am
Re: Strip: staining
Mike Bielski -- 10/31/2011, 9:00 am
Re: Strip: staining
Bill Hamm -- 11/2/2011, 2:09 am
Re: Strip: staining
Dwight Lynn -- 10/30/2011, 3:39 pm
Re: Strip: staining
Mike Bielski -- 10/31/2011, 9:03 am
Re: Strip: staining
Bill Hamm -- 11/2/2011, 2:12 am
Re: Strip: staining
Jay Babina -- 10/30/2011, 9:21 am
Re: Strip: staining
Al Edie -- 10/31/2011, 6:43 pm
Re: Strip: staining *PIC*
Bryan Hansel -- 10/30/2011, 12:27 pm