It has been a staple of amish furniture builders and provides a warm comfortable ambiance to any room.
Stained red oak table.
However they tend to obscure the grain of the wood.
Just keep in mind that whichever polyshades color you choose to apply will take over the existing light finish so the.
But if it s red oak you could purchase a red oak board from lowe s and do a bunch of tests on your own to get the color right.
To get what you want you have to start with a.
This can result in strong light dark contrasts.
A 180 grit final sanding may neutralize this contrast.
Whether flat sawn or quarter sawn you need to apply grain filler if you re interested in having a pore filled finish.
The following slides show the look of red oak with various finishes.
The red dye is incredibly strong.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
Red oak is an open grained hardwood much like ash walnut or mahogany.
Because of oak s cellular structure the pigments in oil based stains collect more in the wood s open grain areas while the smoother denser surrounding areas retain less.
Sometimes mixing stain colors can help but i don t know what the right formula would be off the top of my head.
This finish looks great on plainsawn red oak boards and is impossible to get straight out of a can.
But the gel stain is applied without a barrier coat so it darkens both the earlywood and latewood.
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Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
That having been stated my easy red oak finish largely negates any need for grain filling as the stain and the topcoat are thixotropic oil based gels.
You want to choose a stain that looks good and is easy to apply.
Red and white oak are the most common types used in america with white oak being the cheaper variety.
How to stain red oak wood written by garry steck on jun 12 2010.
If your existing finish is a lighter wood tone similar to or such as minwax wood finish colors natural golden oak ipswich pine puritan pine golden pecan fruitwood driftwood early american cherry or pickled oak changing color with polyshades is quite easy.
Apply trans tint bright scarlet to the bare wood and let it dry.
Pigment stains are easy to apply.
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With stain more layers likely wouldn t help because the wood is still supposed to come through.
Oak wood has a porous quality to it which makes it very absorbent of staining materials.
Stripping to bare wood beyond hugely labor intensive will make the gray go over the raw pink nature of red oak so you get a pink gray more kin to the 80 s pink whitewash g technique than the current fad of gray stain.
Red oak is a classic wood type that is perfect for a traditional styled home.
Both pigmented and penetrating oil based stains are suitable for hardwoods such as oak.