posted also at homestead:
I'm staining red oak with fuhr105 antique cherry. the client has
requested that I make the color as dark as I can, and approved a
sample with 2 coats of stain topped with enduro water poly. the color
samples were small and looked OK, but now I'm setting up for the full
job and did a larger sample.
wiping this stuff on red oak is giving me bad results. it doesn't want
to penetrate into the pores, leaving white dots all over the piece,
and it's not absorbing evenly- I'm getting lap marks that won't even
out, and areas that are significantly darker/lighter than others.
I'm applying with a rag. the stain is modified with the retarder to
near the label limit. I'm in arizona and the weather is warm and dry-
weather.com says 86 degrees.
some things I'm considering: spraying as a glaze or either wetting the
wood or thinning the finish with water to get it to flow/penetrate
better. I see from other posts here that thinning with water is likely
to cause more problems with penetration than it solves, plus I'm
worried about raising the grain.
so- can this stain be mixed with enduro poly products and sprayed, or
am I limited to wiping methods?
or am I just overlooking something obvious here?
Hi Bridger,
That is a common problem with a lot of WB products and oak. I had the
same problem with oak and Fuhr 155 (and also with aniline dyes and
water). It looks good when applied but when it dries it pulls out of the
pores.
I have used various techniques to work around the problem. For a bar top
where we wanted to fill the pores, I sanded the surface to 120 grit. I
then tinted some pore filler with the stain and applied the filler. Did a
final sanding of 150 grit and then sprayed on the 155 stain. Looked
great.
I variation on the above if you do not want to fill the grain is to
substitute transtint dyes in alcohol for the grain filler.
While I haven't tried it, apparently if you apply a light coat of top
coat first, the stain will remain in the pores. I'll be watching what
others have to say on Homestead's site. Cheers, JG
[email protected] wrote:
> posted also at homestead:
>
> I'm staining red oak with fuhr105 antique cherry. the client has
> requested that I make the color as dark as I can, and approved a
> sample with 2 coats of stain topped with enduro water poly. the color
> samples were small and looked OK, but now I'm setting up for the full
> job and did a larger sample.
>
> wiping this stuff on red oak is giving me bad results. it doesn't want
> to penetrate into the pores, leaving white dots all over the piece,
> and it's not absorbing evenly- I'm getting lap marks that won't even
> out, and areas that are significantly darker/lighter than others.
>
> I'm applying with a rag. the stain is modified with the retarder to
> near the label limit. I'm in arizona and the weather is warm and dry-
> weather.com says 86 degrees.
>
> some things I'm considering: spraying as a glaze or either wetting the
> wood or thinning the finish with water to get it to flow/penetrate
> better. I see from other posts here that thinning with water is likely
> to cause more problems with penetration than it solves, plus I'm
> worried about raising the grain.
>
> so- can this stain be mixed with enduro poly products and sprayed, or
> am I limited to wiping methods?
>
> or am I just overlooking something obvious here?
update:
I'm getting decent results at this point. what I'm doing is spraying
the heavily retarded stain onto the unsealed wood and wiping that.
using the spray gun to do the initial distribution of the stain seems
to get it spread around enough that I can beat the lap marks, and
flooding the surface and a vigorous wipedown seems to be the ticket to
getting it into all of the pores.
A drop or two of DAWN in a quart of stain should help to reduce the
surface tension considerably. As always, try it on a sample first.
>
> wiping this stuff on red oak is giving me bad results. it doesn't want
> to penetrate into the pores, leaving white dots all over the piece,
> and it's not absorbing evenly- I'm getting lap marks that won't even
> out, and areas that are significantly darker/lighter than others.
>
> I'm applying with a rag. the stain is modified with the retarder to
> near the label limit. I'm in arizona and the weather is warm and dry-
> weather.com says 86 degrees.
Use 180 grit max.
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> posted also at homestead:
>
> I'm staining red oak with fuhr105 antique cherry. the client has
> requested that I make the color as dark as I can, and approved a
> sample with 2 coats of stain topped with enduro water poly. the color
> samples were small and looked OK, but now I'm setting up for the full
> job and did a larger sample.
>
> wiping this stuff on red oak is giving me bad results. it doesn't want
> to penetrate into the pores, leaving white dots all over the piece,
> and it's not absorbing evenly- I'm getting lap marks that won't even
> out, and areas that are significantly darker/lighter than others.
>
> I'm applying with a rag. the stain is modified with the retarder to
> near the label limit. I'm in arizona and the weather is warm and dry-
> weather.com says 86 degrees.
>
> some things I'm considering: spraying as a glaze or either wetting the
> wood or thinning the finish with water to get it to flow/penetrate
> better. I see from other posts here that thinning with water is likely
> to cause more problems with penetration than it solves, plus I'm
> worried about raising the grain.
>
> so- can this stain be mixed with enduro poly products and sprayed, or
> am I limited to wiping methods?
>
> or am I just overlooking something obvious here?
Little whit areas that didn't take stain? Oil or Wax! Before & After sanding
wipe down with Mineral Spirits then a final wipe down with denatured
Alcohol. Either oil or wax from your fingers or tool surfaces got on the
wood!
"NorthIdahoWWer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> What grit of paper did you sand with? Maybe this is obvious but a higher
> grit paper, like 220, will close up the pores and prevent stain
absorption.
> I typically use 120, 150 at the finest if I'm staining. I haven't used
your
> particular brand of stain so I can't comment on that. Good luck.
>
> Will
>
> >
> > I'm staining red oak with fuhr105 antique cherry. the client has
> > requested that I make the color as dark as I can, and approved a
> > sample with 2 coats of stain topped with enduro water poly. the color
> > samples were small and looked OK, but now I'm setting up for the full
> > job and did a larger sample.
> >
> > wiping this stuff on red oak is giving me bad results. it doesn't want
> > to penetrate into the pores, leaving white dots all over the piece,
> > and it's not absorbing evenly- I'm getting lap marks that won't even
> > out, and areas that are significantly darker/lighter than others.
> >
> > I'm applying with a rag. the stain is modified with the retarder to
> > near the label limit. I'm in arizona and the weather is warm and dry-
> > weather.com says 86 degrees.
> >
> > some things I'm considering: spraying as a glaze or either wetting the
> > wood or thinning the finish with water to get it to flow/penetrate
> > better. I see from other posts here that thinning with water is likely
> > to cause more problems with penetration than it solves, plus I'm
> > worried about raising the grain.
> >
> > so- can this stain be mixed with enduro poly products and sprayed, or
> > am I limited to wiping methods?
> >
> > or am I just overlooking something obvious here?
>
>
What grit of paper did you sand with? Maybe this is obvious but a higher
grit paper, like 220, will close up the pores and prevent stain absorption.
I typically use 120, 150 at the finest if I'm staining. I haven't used your
particular brand of stain so I can't comment on that. Good luck.
Will
>
> I'm staining red oak with fuhr105 antique cherry. the client has
> requested that I make the color as dark as I can, and approved a
> sample with 2 coats of stain topped with enduro water poly. the color
> samples were small and looked OK, but now I'm setting up for the full
> job and did a larger sample.
>
> wiping this stuff on red oak is giving me bad results. it doesn't want
> to penetrate into the pores, leaving white dots all over the piece,
> and it's not absorbing evenly- I'm getting lap marks that won't even
> out, and areas that are significantly darker/lighter than others.
>
> I'm applying with a rag. the stain is modified with the retarder to
> near the label limit. I'm in arizona and the weather is warm and dry-
> weather.com says 86 degrees.
>
> some things I'm considering: spraying as a glaze or either wetting the
> wood or thinning the finish with water to get it to flow/penetrate
> better. I see from other posts here that thinning with water is likely
> to cause more problems with penetration than it solves, plus I'm
> worried about raising the grain.
>
> so- can this stain be mixed with enduro poly products and sprayed, or
> am I limited to wiping methods?
>
> or am I just overlooking something obvious here?
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:12:56 -0400, JGS <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Hi Bridger,
> That is a common problem with a lot of WB products and oak. I had the
>same problem with oak and Fuhr 155 (and also with aniline dyes and
>water). It looks good when applied but when it dries it pulls out of the
>pores.
it's drying so fast that I can't get it down evenly. it's drying
almost instantly. I don't think it's pulling out of the pores- it's
not getting there in the first place.
I can get an OK result on a small piece, but many of my panels are
large- a few of them are about 2/3 of a sheet of ply and one is a 14
foot long top.
> I have used various techniques to work around the problem. For a bar top
>where we wanted to fill the pores, I sanded the surface to 120 grit. I
>then tinted some pore filler with the stain and applied the filler. Did a
>final sanding of 150 grit and then sprayed on the 155 stain. Looked
>great.
> I variation on the above if you do not want to fill the grain is to
>substitute transtint dyes in alcohol for the grain filler.
> While I haven't tried it, apparently if you apply a light coat of top
>coat first, the stain will remain in the pores. I'll be watching what
>others have to say on Homestead's site. Cheers, JG
>
>[email protected] wrote:
>
>> posted also at homestead:
>>
>> I'm staining red oak with fuhr105 antique cherry. the client has
>> requested that I make the color as dark as I can, and approved a
>> sample with 2 coats of stain topped with enduro water poly. the color
>> samples were small and looked OK, but now I'm setting up for the full
>> job and did a larger sample.
>>
>> wiping this stuff on red oak is giving me bad results. it doesn't want
>> to penetrate into the pores, leaving white dots all over the piece,
>> and it's not absorbing evenly- I'm getting lap marks that won't even
>> out, and areas that are significantly darker/lighter than others.
>>
>> I'm applying with a rag. the stain is modified with the retarder to
>> near the label limit. I'm in arizona and the weather is warm and dry-
>> weather.com says 86 degrees.
>>
>> some things I'm considering: spraying as a glaze or either wetting the
>> wood or thinning the finish with water to get it to flow/penetrate
>> better. I see from other posts here that thinning with water is likely
>> to cause more problems with penetration than it solves, plus I'm
>> worried about raising the grain.
>>
>> so- can this stain be mixed with enduro poly products and sprayed, or
>> am I limited to wiping methods?
>>
>> or am I just overlooking something obvious here?