Dye Stain Maple

I tried everything to get a stain to work even buying minwaxs darkest stain possible and stain prep but that didnt work it just didnt penetrate the hard maples surface. Sand the floor for both applications the best way to start is by sanding the maple floor flawlessly. Question i am currently trying to match a dark brown maple sample supplied by a designer that was obtained from a large manufacturer in canada.
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Dye stain on the other hand can penetrate more deeply and allow more grain detail to show.

Dye stain maple. Darkening maple with dye stain a tricky stain matching problem involving maple veneer and dye stain. Stains and dyes produce different looks because they color wood in different ways. Soft maple is also often referred to as tiger maple for the tiger like stripes in the wood or curly maple if the stripes are a bit more of the curly nature. I am trying to finish maple to a brown appearance.

Tips for a darker stain on hard maple. First of all soft maple and red maple are typically the same things. My goal with this video is to grossly simplify the confusing world of dyes while also giving you the knowledge you need to determine the working characteristics of any dye just by looking at the. The ability of dye stains to penetrate more deeply makes them especially effective at emphasizing the natural chatoyance of figured woods like curly maple.

The term soft maple is a bit of a comparative misnomer as soft maple is harder than many other hardwoods such as cherry. I am using a dewaxed shelac as a sanding sealer and this imparts a slightly amber tone to the wood and when i apply the col. The two options available are staining maple using a dye water soluble or solvent soluble or alcohol soluble or using a conventional resin based wiping stain. Now if you still want to get a darker finish on your maple cabinet doors here are some tips.

See how general finishes water based wood stain meets the challenge of uniform and dark color absorption on difficult to stain wood species such as pine cherry birch and maple without the need. See the photo above for examples of coloring curly maple. Maple gel stain i get an orange tone wood instead of the brown i would like. This creates a color effect that can be deep and intense without blocking grain patterns.

Tip number 1 do not stain. Then i found out about dyes and realized that yeah this makes a ton more sense because you can always sharpie wood no matter how dense it is. Tip number 2 always start staining on the backs so if you hate the stain experiment you will not see it every day. Stain tends to create a bland look on figured wood while dye gives the surface an attractive undulating appearance.

If you want a darker finish on maple use a dye. This weeks question comes from darin.