Originally Posted by
auscab
Here's a secret. :)
A real good polish job with lots of character and variation but looking the right colour is Exactly The Same to a painting that an artist does on a canvas.
Every detail the artist wants has to be put there to make the image He/She wants.
So one wipe of colour , one wipe of sealer or two . Three wipes of shellac , finish , wax . looks dead boring ! Pretty much what most people do .
If you shade the stain in and out where its needed You can get a better look. What I do sometimes is , use three different stains blended in to one another across the surfaces. Mix three that are similar but different . After sealing Apply later coloured finished half way through , then wipeing them off so they stay in the cracks and crevices of mouldings. Then head towards finishing . Your going to be getting a more interesting look . The more you do the better it gets . If your going in the right direction or taking the right path.
I had to teach myself that path . And a typical quality patinated finish has at least three reaction stains before the three blended spirit stains , six inter layered effects at least , three patina effects then finishing and waxing .
Sometimes all that gets done and the whole lot gets washed off cause I got it wrong and I couldnt fix it .
sometimes that's the best thing that could have happened because the second attempt comes up way better when I know where I went wrong .
On quality from new complex colour work .
The strange thing is I know the fine details of what I just mentioned in above chapter but at the start of every job Im lost! Every time completely Lost .
Ive got to get into it and start and work before I get a feel for where its going . Try things , wipe off mistakes . Once it gets going I hit a point where I feel good with it then a point I know Ive got it . That "got it" part may be half way or two thirds through .
So you have to play with it and be prepared to do it two or three times and you can get a much better result that a one off go . For sure ! :U