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(10-17-2016, 02:49 PM)cputnam Wrote: Transtint in Shellac to get the color you want to be followed by a clear, water-based topcoat. Note that shellac will also act as blotch control. The topcoat will provide the necessary durability.
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This has worked well for me in the past, or just Garnet, or a Blonde Shellac if you want to stay close to normal. Obviously the Garnet will redden it, but on Maple I like it. If you aim is to keep really white looking Maple really white. I want to know how, because virtually everything I have ever tried yellows it a bit, to a LOT. But the blotch part is really easy to control with a 1/2 to 1# cut of Shellac. I put it on, and if the "wet" disappears within seconds, I reapply. You've seen it, sometimes it's just a thirsty piece of wood.
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(10-20-2016, 05:29 PM)Steve N Wrote: This has worked well for me in the past, or just Garnet, or a Blonde Shellac if you want to stay close to normal. Obviously the Garnet will redden it, but on Maple I like it. If you aim is to keep really white looking Maple really white. I want to know how, because virtually everything I have ever tried yellows it a bit, to a LOT. But the blotch part is really easy to control with a 1/2 to 1# cut of Shellac. I put it on, and if the "wet" disappears within seconds, I reapply. You've seen it, sometimes it's just a thirsty piece of wood.
If it were only that simple.
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CN's blotch control worked very well for me on my hard maple cabinets. It didn't have any effect on the curly maple board that got mixed in and ended up being a raised panel.
I've never been fast at matching finishes. IMO, unless you've done it many many times with success, it's very time consuming. I spent the better part of a day trying to perfectly match ambered NC lacquer and an unknown OB stain for a remodel job that "I had" and then never got. I will never do it again.
I think one needs to keep realistic expectations. No two boards ever come out identical. It's wood.
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10-26-2016, 02:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-26-2016, 02:41 PM by Paul K. Murphy.)
I can't see your pictures in a big format. I only see the little ones in this thread. I don't see any botching on the cabinets, but I do see barberpoling.
The manual for The Woodwork Institute (formerly WIC) has an excellent illustration of the barberpoling phenomena.
Of course, the cabinets could be blotched too, I just have crummy eyesight, and only a little tiny picture to look at.
I found links.
Metamerism.
Wow! That's a ten dollar word.
Here you will find an explanation of barber poling.
http://www.woodworks.org/wp-content/uplo...veneer.pdf
The picture of the baseball park was a nice touch.
