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Water Stain Powders
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Vandyke Crystals can be used on oak and mahogany visually for traditional
styles or as used by Antiques restorers. Also Bicromate of potash darkens
mahogany. The powder is dissolved in water and sometimes a little Ammonia
is used for extra penetration.
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Water and Spirit Powder
Dyes
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| Used by Antique restorers and come in
a a range of 17 spirits, 7 water/spirits and 23 water colours. These dyes
are not light fast and not suitable for reproduction or modern furniture. |
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Acrylic Traditional and Contemporary
waterstains
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Suitable for most types of interior woodwork on new and stripped wooden
surfaces. Wood Stains offer excellent light fastness and are suitable
for both soft woods and hard woods. Wood Stains can be inter-mixed for
special colour matching purposes.
Acrylic Wood Stains are ideal for use under solvent based finishes
that are wiped or brushed on top. They don't move or pull off the surface
like oil, spirit or our Wood Dye Nitrostains.
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Traditional Colours
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Contemporary Colours
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Nitrostain
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A traditional woodstain designed for ease of application - similar
to oil stain. Use with Nitrocellulose wood finishes . Nitrostains offer
poor light fastness.
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Light Fast Stains
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| This is an alcohol based solvent stain
which is both light, fast and non-grain raising. The selection of solvents
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IMPORTANT
Always check the colour on an off-cut or underside
of substrate before use. Colour cards are a guide only.
The information given is to our best knowledge
true and accurate and our advice, whether verbal, inwriting
or by trials is given in good faith without warrenty or liability
since the application, use and processing of products is beyond
our control.
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Finishing wood properly
can make an average
piece of furniture look better than expected.
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Slapping a sticky coloured varnish
on a
quality piece will not improve its appearance.
Please ask us a few basic questions and our
expertise will help you to do the job properly.
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Preparation of the substrate is essential to obtaining the right finish.
New wood should be sanded with various grades of abrasive paper finishing
off with fine, depending on the wood type. Old substrates must be free
of old finishes either by sanding or stripping. This applies to all
applications except Antique and old furniture
restoration.
Colouring Wood or Staining is generally
the first step, unless a natural clear finish is required, see our wood
stains chart for compatibility with other finishes.
Staining will give a piece of furniture a more universal colour and
depth. If traditional finishing is required then follow our basic procedure.
Modern finishing or Lacquers take a different route, although the preparation
of the substrate tends to be the same.
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