Not only does the hardness effect how a wood will accept stain (harder woods tend to accept stains better and more evenly) but also the natural color of the wood. I think the only practical way to DIY that would be to use a “chainsaw sawmill” (which I saw recently on Alaska, The Last Frontier). Very interesting! Options. Should I layer a bit of white and with a gray that I wipe off quickly? Really enjoyed this post! I’m about to work on a project that consists of staining some wood, so would appreciate any tips! I have red oak floor that we are considering staining to become a medium brown like yours! Minwax 70003444 Wood Finish Penetrating Stain, quart, Puritan Pine, Quart : Puritan Pine $$ 4.3: 8. Thanks for this post! That’s going to be my go-to process from now on when dealing with pine. So I tried it once again with the vinegar solution (about four hours old at that point), and that one looked like sample #6. But I’ve tried that method with light and medium-toned stains on pine, and it just doesn’t work. You can choose the level of gloss with it, too! Do more!! If after waxing, the wood still feels dry and not waxy, it should be stainable. The stain will be minwax. I guess that won’t work. Toothbrush, dipped in water, dipped in oxcylic acid powder, a little scrubbie-scrubbie and stains are gone! I really would like to cool down the warm undertones some, and I am wondering- do you think more coats of the white would do that? My floor guy really doesn’t want to change the color of banister and spindles. Same. Any thoughts or stains you might suggest would be so grately appreciated. And I bet you’ll never guess Red Oak’s undertones. The funny thing is that the Select Pine sample actually looks like someone did a faux bois technique on it. Poor kitchen floors, they deserved to match! Hard as a rock and I wouldn’t describe it as glossy. And of course it is orange once again. Exactly what I was looking for. Loved seeing all the side by side comparisons. Do you know if I can get that off the pine or if I apply your other steps with the stain will it get to the warm brown? WOULD LOve to see samples of stains on cedar! I can’t thank you enough. Step 2: Apply Minwax Pre-Stain Wood Conditioner to help the stain penetrate the wood evenly and reduce the effect of wood grain raising.. What a wonderful, informative post. Required fields are marked *. Loved this! Start with Minwax ® wood filler to create a stainable, even surface. Even if it’s expensive, it might still be way cheaper than buying the inspiration table. Just a quick question. He laminated some of pine studs together (removed from my house while doing initial renovation) and turned those for the legs. That will be the easy part. Thanks a lot for all the help! Curious how an oil based vs water based would affect the colors especially on the white oak. We are building a house and trying to choose stains for maple cabinets and pine beams and French doors. I’m having pine wood and can’t decide to have it painted white or go with a stain. I only let it age for three hours before using it. Good idea using the Annie Sloane Dark Wax to fill in the grain. Thank you so much – Julia, Great post! I did find this article yesterday, and they have a multi-step process, one of which is to use shellac. All the different colors you can stain Pine … What can be mixed with #2716 Dk Walnut penetrating stain, to bring out a touch of red. I have some white oak chairs I bought half finished from an antiques place and stained dark walnut… they came out like a dream. This helps a lot!! So there’s definitely something to the vinegar solution, even using it after only three or four hours. I’m afraid we wouldn’t be able to tell you which to choose – far too many factors involved and we’re not there to see any of them in person. I do not have a good hand with poly, either spraying or brushing. Thanks! I would personally be a bit scared of trying it on a floor. Oh no! I came across some info about bleaching wood, and I think if it’s done before staining, it’ll remove that yellow/orange color and make the stain look much better. I am limited on cabinet space so I am doing diy open shelves in our kitchen and I just knew your blog was the place to go for tips on mixing wood tones! There is not much worse than putting on the wrong stain, especially if you are working with dark ones. It delivered rich, dark brown tones. I totally respect and am all too familiar with your budget restrictions. I would also love to see more, especially different stains on wood used for fences. I have been doing wood finishing for over 20 years and I can’t tell you how hard it is to get a client to appreciate how different stains look on different types of wood. I am sure it has something to do with the particular piece of wood. The table from my step-sister didn’t work out. Then stain on top of it. The colour is a deep rich reddish gold. I generally use a wood conditioner, followed by a dark stain color. Doing an oil based poly over them vs a water based. THANK YOU. Oil-based stains, such as Minwax Wood Finish, enhances pine’s grain and colors and can do it with just one heavy coat. I’m pretty sure that the last one is exactly what I’m going for. I’m looking for a medium toned, neutral-ish stain (I guess). Another way I’ve found to deal with stain and getting just the right color is to make and use a wood toner. Would that eliminate the pink? Thanks! I tried some of the wax over red paint on a scrap piece of wood and I was immediately sold. A shellac or sanding sealer might do the same thing. I did have one question, would selecting a different wood choice make it easier to accomplish the desired result? Ft. of 4/4 and 10 Bd. I love this! This is very helpful and well organized, thank you! Minwax is my go to stain. I finally gave up, sanded them down to bare wood, and just oiled them with mineral oil, and then kept them oiled on a regular basis. White Oak has the most neutral undertones. My husband just finished a wall of Beetle Kill pine. I think the huge variation in poplar might drive me a little crazy, but birch does look awful stunning in those two dark stains. The pine to me looked very different from my own experience. It does an incredible job taking out water marks from old doors — which is why I bought it! I’m surprised how subtle simply white was on oak, less painted white looking than I expected. Incredibly helpful! Fascinating Blog today! Your options may be adjusted based on color selection. Apply first in a thin coat if you want a lighter color and add another for a darker shade. Did you like the results? I’m considering using a dark stain, which will work better with the stone counter top color. When working with maple or birch, you usually leave the stain on longer to achieve a darker result. Perhaps someone could give me their opinions of what wood and stain to use with black iron pipe? Is the Minwax conditioner a substitute for water-popping? Thank you for posting this! I stained every board three times with Minwax Golden Oak and wiped it off after only five minutes. That piece you bought certainly qualifies as “crazy grain”! It drives me absolutely crazy the way that water-based poly clouds up when it gets wet. The homemade vinegar stain was about two cups of white vinegar, two “000” steel wool pads, and two tablespoons of coffee grounds. But if you have a scrap piece left over, you might want to try bleaching the wood. Pine Stains Very Well. Weathered Oak wood stain by Minwax. I did three coats in order to get basically the same depth of color on each board. yes! Wax is just not durable for a table that is used often, so that’s not even an option that I would consider. Thanks so much for putting this together. Ultimately, I think I’ll need to coordinate a color so that I can leave the inside of the cabinets gold, which suggests black to me. White Oak has the most neutral undertones. Did I mention we bought bright orange appliances by the Big Chill pro line? I do need help though. In the picture with only pine boards, they look a lot darker and much less gray. We finally had our floors refinished last summer to try to get them a similar color. These are used separately. But back to reality…I’ll be building my table out of pine. I was surprised how much I liked the poplar in the white stain, I would never have thought to try that, but it really calms down the purples and greens that poplar has, without making it look dull and boring. It would be more expensive for me to make a DIY table out of walnut than to just buy the Williams-Sonoma table. Your cart is fantastic! Thoughts? Really! I ended up not using this technique on my table, so I don’t have a picture of it on a large surface. Minwax Pickled Oak. I’ll use your post to give her some examples. How about doing a layer of thinned down paint to control the grain and color variation. This was such a great post! Thank you for doing this! Forward Momentum (Dining Room Rug Purchase, and More! 2. It is a water based non yellowing product. It’s not even like it’s a huge price difference! Best option is to cut small pieces of what you’re going to be using and do some at-home tests to see the impact. This is one reason I’m an avid reader of your blog! Definitely not the look I’m going for. And if so, is it a yellow/amber color like an oil-based poly, or is it clear like a lacquer? I use it on all my outdoor furniture, my front door (inside and outside), and it lasts exceptionally well!This looks glossy at first but quickly cures to a soft sheen. Thanks for all the experimenting. The gel stain does not penetrate the wood but rather sits on top of it so it’s great for masking ugly wood grain. Do you think the Red Oak with a Simply White stain would turn pink as it ages? He is going to be using yellow pine, but the wood pieces that are more white. But then I wiped everything with almost a dry brush technique using Minwax Espresso stain. Love this! Not so much hand-rubbed. I find that stain-only sample to be just terrible, and that’s what I was afraid of my whole table looking like. I have very few tools at this time. Like I said, I wish we could do 15 more of these! I’m having a pine table made, but I don’t love any of those stains. I know it clears back up when it dries out, but it’s just not something I’d ever use on dining table. Hi Kristi That’s a lovely finish on pine. It also come in different wax tones, so I can tailor it for the huge of the wood. Why would they do that and not stick with white oak??? I am literally holding off on my cedar plank wall project until I can find a freaking can of it somewhere in the universe lol. I wondered about getting old pine planks as well. I was afraid there for a bit that the difference was in the type of grain you had more than the method you were using. This is so timely. Only one on each. Any cherry or red furniture I bleach before doing all the other steps. Thanks! Your illustrations were fantastic and saved me from making a huge mistake. I had so much trouble with countertops when i tried to stain them. Poplar looked a little bit like watermelon. Prep- if you sand wood, the grit that you finish at will dramatically change how much stain is absorbed. Most retailers sell the small trial packs. I’ve been dying to redo my 1990’s era red oak floors for a long time now, but haven’t been able to find any really useful information. I prefer Red Oak. And I also used this go-to stain on our nightstands recently. It’s a metal guide/fence attachment for a chainsaw that lets you slice boards from a log right in the field. Thanks!! The owner sells on eBay as well. I tried this on white oak and did not get the look you got but I want to achieve this! Seriously though, I came here looking for some ideas of which wood to use and which stain and now it’s even harder to decide what I want to do. And here’s a look at my favorite sample compared to the stain-only sample. I did have to mix the dark and light tung oil to get the finished color I wanted. Hmmm…I hadn’t heard of that, so I searched, and the first article that came up was this one: http://www.woodshopnews.com/columns-blogs/finishing/502292-shellac-as-a-sealer-its-all-just-hype. Thank you so much! I’m open to suggestions on which of the ones here to use or if you have something else I should look at (different color stain), let me know! (Then wash with 1/4 vinegar/water and lightly sand.) Thanks for sharing! Guess I’ll have to ask the girlfriend what her preference is and I’ll build it to her specs. Anyway – thank you again! That looks wonderful! If you can’t find it in your area let me know, I would be happy to send you what you need to try it. However, going really light has some appeal, too, but I can just envision that dingy gold coming through! thank you for showing me how to stain my red oak cabinets. What I WOULD try on a floor is bleaching the wood first (using a bleach product that’s specifically made for floors and other large areas) and then staining. http://www.finewoodworking.com/how-to/article/pitfalls-of-finishing-pine.aspx. Just brush it on and let it set for about 20 minutes, then you can apply the stain of your choice. This is a process that I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading about lately because I want to build a wood countertop for a pantry I’ll be building, and naturally, pine is the cheapest wood so that’s probably what I’ll be using. We’re in a rental so we’re stuck with the very dark mahogany cabinets with brushed silver hardware. You can check out the details of my process here…. I love it when I can make connections like that! Thanks for putting in the work to share. So I wiped the vinegar solution onto the wood, didn’t see any change, wiped it off, and decided to try something else. The Douglas fir has a orange tent I need to tone down. Done! This maybe the most helpful blog post ever. 2. And remove one or two steps and achieve a more satisfying result? Ft. of 6/4. It is an oil based wood finish. Any suggestions. I will be watching anxiously.. Minwax Golden Pecan. But just the absolute thinnest of coats of wax seemed to be enough to seal the wood to the point where the grain wouldn’t soak up the stain in a crazy way, but not seal it so much that the wood was too saturated with wax to soak up stain. Naturals in a very red way. I know you have the steel wool pads, but do you use those to take it on/off as well? You can see clearly the wood’s color undertones (yellow, pink, green, neutral, red) but they aren’t nearly as pronounced. What about bleaching the red oak first then applying the simply white stain? But the Dark Walnut goes with our new wood floors and the vibe of our house better. I wanted to know how well birch took stain. Now I can’t wait to do the downstairs, which are white oak floors. Guess the 3-4 hour aging is best. Isn’t that going to make staining tricky – as shown with this post, different woods take on different looks? He used this product: http://www.minwax.com/wood-products/specialty-finishes/minwax-paste-finishing-wax (which our local Home Depot paint guy called “bowling alley wax” because it reminds him of what they put on bowling alley floors). I just wanted to chime in that polyurethane over the wax might not be a good idea: Q. OLD 24980 Gel Wood Stain Puritian Pine, 1 pint: Puritan Pine $$$ 4.4: 7. Since you had wanted to upload them, I didn’t think you would mind, but if you’d like me to remove them, just let me know. Can I apply another clear protective finish over Soft Wax? I’d love to see how the process worked on the entire piece. Thanks everyone! Can this same process be done on raw oak? I’d avoid a polyacrylic unless someone online has tried and tape-tested it and found it works. It applies easily and How amazing that you have a table made partially from wood that came from your house! What color stain would you use to achieve a blonde look with Douglas fir? Thanks for this! I’m guessing Minwax sent you one directly since they sponsored this post? Hope that makes sense. Apply Minwax Pre-Stain Wood Conditioner to your project with a foam brush or rag, allowing it to penetrate for about 5 to 15 minutes. This post is sponsored by Minwax. Your post was the clincher. I am thinking of gray stain first, to neutralize, but I really like the idea of a wax to fill in the cracks for an aged look. I’m starting to look for a way to stain my pine kitchen floors. But I still hate pine. Thanks for the inspiration. If this is a potential series, I’d love more in depth on layering stains and working with Gel Stains as that is surprisingly easy to do but provides very ‘next level’ results. Wood Finish Water-Based Penetrating Stain Tintable Colors Blues. Plywood if usually birch veneered for these reasons. Thanks, all! I guess I’m asking what is the cost differential between pine and oak, walnut etc? I’m building a Arts & Crafts hall cabinet. I found one of the photos through a google search but a whole S load of spam sites had the photo. What kind of stores sell hardware like that? Thanks for sharing. Thank you again for all the time you put into keeping the general public informed. They are expensive but I don’t think anyone makes reproductions. Thank you so much for doing this! Thanks for this post! It’s crazy pine grain! Bravo! containerEl: document.querySelector('#fd-form-5d767f96afdf3e000f968472') Kristi – just be aware that your new table isn’t going to stay the colour you make it at the beginning. Think of all trim and stair parts as furniture. To give each wood the best chance at sporting stain, we started our study with Minwax’s Pre-Stain Wood Conditioner. Would it take that stain well? Stunning grays and tan, but I hate the yellow tone. Poplar has green undertones. I really love the Simply White and am considering using it on an antique mahogany piece. Here at Arkansas Wood Doors, we use Minwax products to stain our pine doors. P.S. I used one coat of Minwax Honey stain. Did you sand the woods before staining them? Here are some colors I like but am open to other ideas. First, I used some homemade vinegar stain on the wood to cut the yellow/orange color of the pine. My only complaint is that you DID NOT WATERMARK YOUR PHOTOS!! Great post. Thank you so, so much for this exercise. This is one of my favorite posts I have ever read – ! Do you know by chance if you could go over the Jacobean with the simply white to get some contrast? Pine is rather a soft wood, will it hold up for a dining table? I had never used a pre-stain conditioner and also wanted to see the denefit of doing so. Really appreciated it – you could totally make a series out of it! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Just some suggestions for you…looking good and I was going to suggest select pine as I was reading your post and you use it…that piece was gorgeous. I’ll be 75 in January and am in the process of making my last big project – a daybed that will eventually be used as my casket. Yep, I mentioned that above. I just finished using it on farmhouse style picture frames I built out of the cheap pine 1×2’s at Home Depot and they turned out gorgeous. Regarding a wax coating not being durable… I assume you’re referring to a hand-rubbed product like the Annie Sloan waxes. They look too orangey for my liking which I find happens frequently with stains and now wonder if I can go over them in a neutral darker stain but it will be a major mess, time commitment and height bravery (as they are on high parts of our house). more expensive) and there was some improvement. Minwax Jacobean. LOVE this post–very helpful!! 5. We’ve had several friends rip plywood and use, but like you said- THE GRAIN!!!!!!!! Thanks for doing this, it really is beneficial! Note I would recommend using Pre-Stain wood conditioner before staining any White Pine wood. Especially when a big oak fell on our property recently. Would it be too white going that route? Would you please share the technique you used on the simply white? Is there an image of the finished table? Saved by Beth Daugherity. It really softened each wood tone and color while not masking any grain–like semi-opaque stains do. Funny how opinions can differ, I came on this site from google image because I wanted to know what was sample #1. Darn! Definitely referencing this any time we have a staining project. Very helpful post! I appreciate any thoughts on this. This is my favorite, and it was a four-step process. Any finish that I do on my table will be protected by several layers of oil-based polyurethane. What a difference! Is there yellow pine and white pine? The finish was beautiful. Can’t wait to see the counters. Sad face. I only let the vinegar solution set for about three hours before using it. I have a bit of a dilemma in that I have white oak floors in my newly renovated kitchen and original red Oak from 1930 on the rest of my main floor. This is sososo helpful! Thanks for pulling this together! Great information! Just read your post here and thought I’d ask how your counters and cabinets came out? But I’m back to the issue with the yucky grain. Amazing photography as well. Tough to know! I love how the wax settled in the low places and gave it an aged look. Ended up going with red oak and golden oak stain and the color is exactly as seen in person. What are your suggestions? !function(d,s,id){var e, p = /^http:/.test(d.location) ? Thank you for a fantastically organized review of stains on various woods. Some are a mix of colors I'm sure. View 15 Best minwax stain colors pine images. Last, is the redder of the two dark stains we experimented with. Both of them. We tested a few for ourselves but this is helping me to find some direction in what to try next. So you just put one coat of shellac and let it dry. Awesome post. Antique pine often has a dark, mellow color. It’s soft, but the dings and scratches that occur kind of lend to the character and charm of it. Hi Kristi, Me decide on stains, wood stain options asking what is shown your... 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