Apply trans tint bright scarlet to the bare wood and let it dry.
Stained red oak table.
However oak does have a very dramatic grain of the wood which can sometimes give even the darkest stain a streaky effect or the look of highlights.
You want to choose a stain that looks good and is easy to apply.
Oak wood has a porous quality to it which makes it very absorbent of staining materials.
Pigment stains are easy to apply.
Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
With stain more layers likely wouldn t help because the wood is still supposed to come through.
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.
But the gel stain is applied without a barrier coat so it darkens both the earlywood and latewood.
Red oak is an open grained hardwood much like ash walnut or mahogany.
Red oak is a classic wood type that is perfect for a traditional styled home.
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.
How to stain red oak wood written by garry steck on jun 12 2010.
Just keep in mind that whichever polyshades color you choose to apply will take over the existing light finish so the.
The red dye is incredibly strong.
The following slides show the look of red oak with various finishes.
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However they tend to obscure the grain of the wood.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
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.
This can result in strong light dark contrasts.
A 180 grit final sanding may neutralize this contrast.
Both pigmented and penetrating oil based stains are suitable for hardwoods such as oak.
To get what you want you have to start with a.
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.
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.
Whether flat sawn or quarter sawn you need to apply grain filler if you re interested in having a pore filled finish.
Red and white oak are the most common types used in america with white oak being the cheaper variety.
This finish looks great on plainsawn red oak boards and is impossible to get straight out of a can.
Penetrating stains as the name suggests penetrates the wood allowing more of the grain to show.
Deep dark red oak.