Thread: Wood Stain help

Welcome to the forum.

It's unlikely that anyone can recommend to 'use brand x tint y' as tint matching is practically an art in and of itself.

When applying the stain directly to the bare timber you'll often see a different result to what's advertised on the can. This can be mitigated to a degree by sealing the timber first - perhaps with blond shellac - and applying the colour over the top.

Really, the best advice I can give is probably what you're doing already: try several different 'nearly right' colours om a scrap piece.

Originally Posted by ashraf

Hi,

I recently stripped my TV cabinet to bare wood. I am trying to stain it back to match the rest of cabinet. My cabinet is Oak colour (see attached photo). Yet, I tried multiple stains (Timber protect yellow oak), Feast Watson clear varnish, Feast Watson prooftiny Oak with various solvent concentrations, yet I am not able to match stain. I have different furniture pieces, purchased from different vendors with same cabinet colours so I guess there is stain that can achieve this wood Oak colour.

Two pictures would be better. One of what you have, raw, stripped, and one of what you want it to look like.

What you want it to look like is the picture you supplied . So what are you trying to make look like that?

What you have looks like just a clear coat over an Aussie hardwood to Me. No colour.

Also bear in mind that walnut isn't all a deep brown it can vary from golden honey colour to deep brown.

What you have in the pic looks very much like teak which may darken when wet with water or metho. and depending on the other walnut coloured furniture might just go close to real walnut colour.

As auscab suggested a comparison picture or two would definitely help figure out what colour(s) to stain with for a match.

Cheers