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10th November 2005, 12:26 PM #1
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The things we do without thinking!!!
Currently finishing of a cricket bat display case/box.
Today I was at the staining stage.
Got out the mahogany stain, in one of those new screw cap tins that may be great for re-sealing but usless for getting a brush/sponge into. No problems I poured some into a plastic container wide enough for the sponge I had. I then tested it on a scrap, too dark so I had to add some turps. No worries in with the turps and gave it a stir.
Picked up the first piece and started to apply the stain.
Hmmmmmmm wish I was tidier, dribbling down the side of the container onto the bench. No biggie thats what the bench is for.
Wow that is a lot of "dribbling" ending up on the bench.:confused:
AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH. Turps and plastic dont mix do they. :eek:
Picked up the container just as the bottom fell out, stain everywhere!!!!!!!!!! :mad:
Now I have a nice mahogany stain in the middle of my bench and red trim on my dewalt 12" SCMS where I didnt get it all off
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10th November 2005, 12:47 PM #2
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No probs just stain the whole bench and improve the DewalT by making it Triton orange?
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10th November 2005, 01:36 PM #3
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It was probably the stain itself.
I was applying some stain with those surgical gloces you can buy in a box of 100 at bunnings. The gloves literally melted off my fingers!
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10th November 2005, 02:33 PM #4
Life is good with wood!
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You're not the first one. I recently dropped an open whole tin of Mahogany stain onto my carpeted shop floor. I swear it looks like one of those forensic blood stains you see on TV - about 500mm in diameter.
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10th November 2005, 03:32 PM #5
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Whoever says that they have never done something like this would be guilty of a terminological inexactitude I reckon!
Originally Posted by DPB
You're not the first one. I recently dropped an open whole tin of Mahogany stain onto my carpeted shop floor. I swear it looks like one of those forensic blood stains you see on TV - about 500mm in diameter.
Catch ya later,
Peter B.
(Corunetes)
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10th November 2005, 07:47 PM #6
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All this sounds horribly familiar - was the stain by any chance Wattyl's pro stuff - the one where one is supposed to use their viciously expensive thinners?
If so, had the same wonderful experience just a week or two ago - plastic beaker melted, latex gloves ditto (very red fingers!), and one camaflauged bench. Not!
Cheers!
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11th November 2005, 12:05 AM #7
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What's the problem? It's called stain, meant to stain things
I did this in a bathroom renovation a few weeks ago. Dropped a tin of PVC priming fluid, splashed all over the front of a brand new, not yet installed, vanity unit.:eek: :eek:
After some panic, I got it all cleaned off, no stain, wife still talks to me.
If we learn by our mistakes, I have had a wonderful education!
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11th November 2005, 03:53 PM #8
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Try vinyl gloves instead of latex. Originally Posted by Redback
It was probably the stain itself.
I was applying some stain with those surgical gloces you can buy in a box of 100 at bunnings. The gloves literally melted off my fingers!
Or if you were using vinyl, try latex.
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