Well this isn't as nice or as complex of work as I've seen some of you guys post here. This is the sort of thing I do country rustic pieces.
So alittle bit about this.
I messed up the staining and clear coat a couple of times and had to sand it down to the bare wood inorder to redo it.
For the past 15 years I used GF water base stains and finishes.
I changed up this time and went for a solvent base finish and a dye stain that I could spray.
The stain was a mixture of stain, acetone and clear. I played with the % I started out with a 50% stain,50% acetone and 20% clear. It came out to dark I wanted the grain and the wood to be seen. I ended up with a 20-30% stain 30% acetone and 30 % clear. The clear was a clear statin Acrylic
Once I got down (it took a while ) it came out pretty good.
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