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    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
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    Very nice!

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    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.

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    Great pattern! My advice, wear gloves

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    Quote Originally Posted by cjones View Post
    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...58&cat=&page=1
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    Michael T
    Happy Carving!


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    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
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    Both came out really nice! Thanks for showing us the photos!
    Michael T
    Happy Carving!


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