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  1. 2nd August 2005, 05:48 PM #1
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    Hi,

    I was up to the stage of staining a large TV entertainment unit I have put together. (first project built and first time with stain.)

    I chose Feast Watson stain as the colours seems what I wanted.
    I also have applied Feast Watson FungiShield as it was mentioned in several posts to help even out the stain in pine.

    I did several test pieces first and was very happy with the resulting colour.

    Last night I applied the stain to about 50% of the unit with a sponge brush.
    After leaving for 3 minutes and wiping off, did not seem to soak in much at all, I was left with about a 50% shade of what I had achieved on my test pieces.

    I am not sure of what to do and why it happenned, the test pieces were from the same batch of timber and treated exactly the same as the cabinet.

    Can I just apply more stain and hope it will go darker ?
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    Gazza, presumably some difference between the test pieces and the project.

    Did you plane/scrape/sand/whatever the test pieces to the the same degree as the project? A smoother finish will suck it up less than a rough one.

    Anyway, just apply the stain again and sneak up on the desired colour.


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  4. 8th August 2005, 11:59 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by scooter
    Did you plane/scrape/sand/whatever the test pieces to the the same degree as the project? A smoother finish will suck it up less than a rough one.Cheers...........Sean
    No, I only sanded the test pieces to 180 while I did the finished piece to 320.

    I had no idea that the smoothness affected the takeup of the stain.

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  5. 8th August 2005, 05:10 PM #4
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    Gazza, you could probably go over the unit again, thus giving it two coats of stain and that should pretty much bring it up to the original colour you liked in the first place.

    Bit of a lesson for all of us. Finish sand our samples/tests as finely as our finished work.

    Good luck.
    Also, well done on completing your first project.
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