Two coats stain in...not as dark as needed... help
Hi, Doing my first “big” project ... a dresser/armoire for the missus ... Red Oak for the doors and drawer fronts and maple plywood for the box... some heavy routing for the door panels and drawer fronts done... All in all, a relative newbie...
Coming to the problem...
The wife picked Varathane Red Mahagony by doing a visual comparison of the box color and an existing drawer she wanted to match ... I sanded 80/150/220, cleaned up with Mineral spirits, put some nice conditioner on for a while ...
And in my excitement did not do a test piece first...to make sure the wife likes the color Zzz
Did all the door panels and fronts ... two stains in ... making sure the stain does not stay too long and sticky (as the book says
...
and now the wife says this is not the color she wants... needs to be much darker and redder.
Am I dead now? Are these pieces unsalvagable... is there any way for me to magically darken the stain after two coats (short of sanding down all of the stain)....
Will putting a darker stain on top of the two stains help at all ? Or do I have no choice but to sand it down? If I have to sand it down, how much do I need to go? Should I start with a 80 to remove material and then go back to the finer paper?
Thanks a bunch,
Rama.
Hi, Doing my first “big” project ... a dresser/armoire for the missus ... Red Oak for the doors and drawer fronts and maple plywood for the box... some heavy routing for the door panels and drawer fronts done... All in all, a relative newbie...
Coming to the problem...
The wife picked Varathane Red Mahagony by doing a visual comparison of the box color and an existing drawer she wanted to match ... I sanded 80/150/220, cleaned up with Mineral spirits, put some nice conditioner on for a while ...
And in my excitement did not do a test piece first...to make sure the wife likes the color Zzz
Did all the door panels and fronts ... two stains in ... making sure the stain does not stay too long and sticky (as the book says
and now the wife says this is not the color she wants... needs to be much darker and redder.
Am I dead now? Are these pieces unsalvagable... is there any way for me to magically darken the stain after two coats (short of sanding down all of the stain)....
Will putting a darker stain on top of the two stains help at all ? Or do I have no choice but to sand it down? If I have to sand it down, how much do I need to go? Should I start with a 80 to remove material and then go back to the finer paper?
Thanks a bunch,
Rama.