
HTT064 – Stains, Dyes, Glazes, Toners, and Preventing Blotching
Today, we have the Patron Extra podcast from August 2018. In this show, I answer a question from a listener about coloring wood and preventing blotching.
Tag:Finishing
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Please share method for making poplar look like cherry.
You need to experiment with different dye colors and glazes. I’m sorry but I don’t have an exact recipe to share. If you want to see a really simple example of a poplar piece that I did, you can watch my old Porringer Tea Table videos. I used poplar but dyed it so that in the end it did not look like poplar. The key is that you have to experiment and make test boards. Also, be sure to experiment with dye, not oil stain from the hardware store. I like the W. D. Lockwood dyes sold by Tools for Working Wood. Someday I may do a video on this but I’m sure you don’t want to wait for that.