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[cjones]

I carved these out this weekend. I have sanded most of it down and need to stain it now. This will be the first time I have stained in over 20 years so wish me luck.

Any tips on how to stain would be helpful and appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris Jones

[Sliverfoot]

Very nice!

[rmock]

really nice, I use a quick dry oil stain (Varathane) then paint with acrylic and seal with clear. Oil stain seals the wood and keeps your paint from bleeding.

[Smoken D]

Great pattern! My advice, wear gloves:D

[mtylerfl]

I carved these out this weekend. I have sanded most of it down and need to stain it now. This will be the first time I have stained in over 20 years so wish me luck.

Any tips on how to stain would be helpful and appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris Jones

Hi Chris,

On page 3 of the PDF instructions included with this project, take a look at Step 4. This details how I applied the finish step-by-step (sealer,stain, topcoat and gold lettering). Hopefully, this will give you some hints you find helpful.

In case anyone is curious, this is the Joy Tree project I created for the Nov 2009 POM. It's posted at the CarveWright store:

http://store.carvewright.com/product.php?productid=20058&cat=&page=1

[cjones]

Thanks Michael. My biggest issue with these was the actual wood. It was a piece I found by itself at lowes that was pretty clean so I thought I would give it a try. Board ended up being really grainy, causing a lot of problems to sand smooth. It also soaked in the sealer pretty quickly so when I applied the stain, the heavy grain still showed through. Next, I had one of them dry very slow. Come to find out it was an old can of stain I had already and it was oil based. The other stained fine. I didn't get them ready for a show we did yesterday but I did display them as for people to see what I could make. I stained the letters while at the show.

Here is a picture after the topcoat that I just applied today. The one on the left was the oil based stain, cherry. The one on the right I used Minwax red mahogany.

Thanks again,

Chris

[mtylerfl]

Both came out really nice! Thanks for showing us the photos!