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Neil Lawton

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Some Zetas from some of the blanks I posted here

Brown Oak.

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Another Brown Oak

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Sycamore (with a little added colour)

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Neil Lawton

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pittswood said:
Hi Neil,
How did you put the colour into those sycamore Zetas.
Kelvin
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You just dilute spirit stain with cellulose thinners and rub it on with paper towel. If the colour doesn't take, you just add a little more stain to the thinners until it does..
Applying it this way stops the colour completely masking the grain. In this case the Sycamore already had a pinkish hue, so I applied diluted red stain to further colour it up.
It works well on light coloured woods and can help "pop" the grain.

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