Hello all,
I’m a newcomer. I have installed some rough cut (but sanded) 1×6 doug fir latillas on my ceiling and have treated them with natural tung oil to get that beautiful doug-fir tone that you’re probably all familiar with. My problem is my vigas are Engleman spruce (like yellow pine). I don’t expect to get an exact match, but I would like to try to get a close match. I’ve tried several stains, mixing and remixing, etc. But haven’t yet come up with anything I’m especially happy with. Is anybody familiar with a process that they know works?
Thanks
Richard
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I once got stuck trying to match into some aged Douglas Fir using younger Doug Fir during a repair. The best I found was about 1/6 part Watco cherry mixed into Watco natural and applied somewhat unevenly. I don't know what it will do on Spruce - maybe a mix of 1/6 and 1/4?
Thanks Steve,Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely give that a try, but before applying the cherry I think I will give the spruce a wash coat of Zinnsers seal coat diluted 1 to 1 with denatured alcohol (which was a suggestion given to my elsewhere). It was proposed to me that the Zinnsers may help whatever stain I apply absorb "more comfortably" into the wood. (I thought that "comfortably"was a good description of what I was trying to do. Thanks,
richard
I'm not sure applying a diluted shellac before the danish oil is a good solution. It will seal the wood, preventing the danish oil from penetrating. Which it needs to do, to work right.
Applying the seal coat before a colored stain makes sense because it help prevent a "blotchy" coloration as the various areas of the wood absorb differing amounts of stain.
If you have some scrap experiment and see what works.
Beyond this bit of advice, I'm out of my realm. I'm color blind, so I always make someone else match colors, after I match the grain.
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