Thanks for pointing me in the direction of the two part wood bleach. I could not have done this without your help.
This is a recreation of a Thomas Day washstand. Like the original it is made of poplar and walnut. I have never mixed two woods before. I was really worried that I couldn't get the two woods to match. I also was worried that I couldn't get the sap wood and the walnut to match the walnut heart wood. there were also some black stains in the walnut top.
To get everything going in the right direction I bleached the walnut. I then stained everything in multiple layers until the poplar and the walnut were all the same base color. This was followed up with a shellac, both blond and tinted garnet. I learned a good lesson. Don't get greedy. I tried using a fat taklon brush and boy did I make a streaky mess. I switch ed back to my 1" flat taklon brush and life went awesome.
I finished everything up with a padded on a couple of coats of waterlox and then a buffed coat of wax.
Boy am I glad that this thing is almost done. Now I just have to screw down the top and the back splash. I think that I have made every mistake possible with this silly thing.
Jerome
This is a recreation of a Thomas Day washstand. Like the original it is made of poplar and walnut. I have never mixed two woods before. I was really worried that I couldn't get the two woods to match. I also was worried that I couldn't get the sap wood and the walnut to match the walnut heart wood. there were also some black stains in the walnut top.
To get everything going in the right direction I bleached the walnut. I then stained everything in multiple layers until the poplar and the walnut were all the same base color. This was followed up with a shellac, both blond and tinted garnet. I learned a good lesson. Don't get greedy. I tried using a fat taklon brush and boy did I make a streaky mess. I switch ed back to my 1" flat taklon brush and life went awesome.
I finished everything up with a padded on a couple of coats of waterlox and then a buffed coat of wax.
Boy am I glad that this thing is almost done. Now I just have to screw down the top and the back splash. I think that I have made every mistake possible with this silly thing.
Jerome