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   bill_1010 | Sep 14, 2004 11:27pm | #1

   you might try modifying a pickling or whitewash stain.   Add some more TiDioxide and some black dye or a squirt of Charcoal Stain By SW into the pickling stain until you get the color you want.  Start with the Pickling stain, Get a good brand, ive used some pickling stains that had trace amounts of TiDioxide and the stain produced no pickling.   Word up with the dyes or Charcoal stain until you get what you want.

   Another try would be see if they had Ronan (japan colors) in both Grey and White and add the colors to a turpentine base for your stain.  It could work im just uncertain the colors would be opaque enough since the pigments are so finely ground.

   Finishing shops on the internet can supply the tidioxide or you can probably buy some white pigment at your local paint shop to spike up your stain.

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   SWW | Sep 15, 2004 07:34pm | #2

   Jeff Jewitt covers a "pearlized" finish for ash in his book Great Wood Finishes. I haven't tried it myself, but the photos in the book look really good.