Vinegar and steel wool on oak. 0000 steel wool pads mason jars distilled white vinegar paper towels or coffee filters stirring stick paint brush scrap wood. If you want your stain to darken faster try adding another steel wool pad. Aging wood with tea vinegar and steel wool posted on august 12 2013 by thediygirl september 10 2013 i recently read a post explaining the chemistry behind this process how the tannin of the tea would combine with the oxidation of vinegarsteel wool mixture and provide an aging stain for new wood. Age wood with a fun and easy vinegar and tea stain.
The intensity of the stain is determined both by how many steel wool pads you use and how long you let the mixture sit. In this sample we hand scraped our white oak plank then used the vinegarsteel solution. Once it was dry we scraped off the high areas and applied a stain over the top. I guess the acidic solution reacts with the tannins in the wood to create a chemical reaction to weather and essentially stain the wood with somewhat of an acid wash.
This week i done some testing with steel wool vinegar mix on several different species of wood. As you can see the possibilities run the gamut for effects. Add steel wool and vinegar to a mason jar. Here are some samples of typical colors we do using the vinegar and steel wool solution.
The first step in making your diy steel wool and vinegar stain is to add a pad of the 0000 super fine steel wool into a mason jar. Tea steel wool and vinegar wood staining duration. Thanks for watching you can also find me on the following. There are a lot of posts out there on how to age wood with vinegar and steel wool.
In this video i show what vinegar and steelwool mixed together looks like on poplar white pine white oak and pallet wood. 1 3 steel wool pads to a half gallon of vinegar should work for most projects. I used the homemade vinegar and steel wool stain on a recent coffee barspeed rack project i made from scrap oak wood. Vinegar steel wool stain on red oak from home depot.
The posts are good in that they explain the ratios of vinegar and steel wool and sometimes water or tea but you only see the results on one project they made or maybe a few test strips of pine or cedar. Steel wool vinegar testing. The piece was made from white oak pallet wood and red oak purchased from home depot. I have read a lot about using steel wool and vinegar to ageweather new wood.