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   jackplane | Jun 30, 2006 07:20pm | #1

   Why yes it does work well!

   Just grind it to expresso, brew full strength, and spill at will my good man!

    

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   SgianDubh | Jun 30, 2006 09:12pm | #2

   For a less intense brown colour, try tea. Brew it properly-- none of that fake windowsill brewed rubbish preferred in America. Use boiling water over a teabag or loose leaves. Let it cool. Get rid of the teabag(s), or filter through a coffee strainer if using loose leaves. Add a dash of .880 ammonia to give extra bite and dye away. The best tea is the cheapest, strongest tea you can find- the sort that British lorry drivers like in greasy spoon motorway caffs, which also happens to be my type of tea. The Lapsung Noncy and other effete perfume teas just aren't in the running for this kind of job, ha, ha-- ha, ha, ha.

   Incidentally, despite the jocular and flippant style of the response, I'm serious. Slainte.

   Richard Jones Furniture

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   Lataxe | Jun 30, 2006 09:46pm | #3

   Richard,

   A good, strong, old fashioned tea is Ikumbi, from The Dark Continent.  This is the stuff boiled in billycans by my Uncle Cornelius, when he was a long distance lorry driver.  That stuff is near black, when stewed a bit; it looks 99% tannins.

   I believe the Ikumbi has pickled the auld uncle, which is the only reason the old soak still lives (that and the whisky thinning his blood so it can still travel in the arteries he has ruined with a life of self-abuse, self-neglect and self-indulgence).  Hopefully, it would not only colour the furniture but preserve it for a very long time, a la Cornelius.

   Lataxe, a loving nephew.

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   GaryW | Jun 30, 2006 10:21pm | #4

   ROCC Chef,

   Built a set of oak, half-oval stairs in my Connecticut home and spilled coffee on them before finishing. Couldn't get out the stain (water base stains penetrate!), so I stained the rest of them with coffee. They looked quite good. Today, I'd have to use more expensive Peet's coffee instead of whatever I was drinking in those days.

   Gary W

   gwwoodworking.com

   
   

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   Edited 6/30/2006 3:21 pm by GaryW

4. 
   Gretchen | Jul 01, 2006 03:00pm | #5

   Lots of sanding for the raised grain I would think.

   Gretchen
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   Rich14 | Jul 03, 2006 07:03pm | #6

   For "ordinary" work, Folgers or Hills Brother's coffee is ok.

   But for a high end job, use Gevalia.

   <ducking for cover>