While trying to salvage a six sided veneered pedastel (hardwood top and base), I ended up losing the veneer. Out comes the heat gun and off with the old and on with the new(iron on), actually looked pretty good before I put the stain to it. Now I have some mediocre blotching that bothers the heck out of me. This piece will be seen by the general public, not for what it is ,but for what will be seen on top of it.
Is it possible to lighten the blotching or should I just bite the bullet and start over, this time using a conditioner before putting on the stain.
Veneer Came from Woodcraft, looks like some sort of fir or aspen. Stain was GF wipe on.
I know better to do what I did, however the wife was very impatient with my progress.
Any advice will be appreciated
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Given that it's iron-on veneer, anything which is aggressive enough to get most of the stain out of the wood will likely also attack the adhesive. It'd probably be easiest just to reveneer. You can try stripping the existing finish off. But, if it didn't get enough of the stain out of the wood then you'd have invested all that time for nothing.
Kevin,
After my wife took a sample piece to compare with other pieces, she said not to worry,it needed to be a tad bit darker anyway, Now the question is do I put a conditioner on now,? Will it work over the current stain? Or do I stain the whole thing? Time is running out, the piece goes on display shortly.(Not the pedestal,the artwork that sits on top of it)
no conditioner now.
The first stain was the conditioner. If you're going darker you should be able to just go with it.
May even want to think about sealing and doing a glazing coat at this point.The older I get, the better I was....
Ditto, except that if the second application of stain pools on the surface I'd look at maybe wetsanding it lightly. What he doesn't want to do is leave an oil stain pooled on the surface. Given that he's trying to darken it slightly, that's going to be something he'll need to watch for. The glaze idea might be better. It's hard to say without seeing the piece as well as an example of how much darker.
Well the darker business has turned to "warmer". Wife found some not so old Pecan GF finish and was happy with the results. Looks as though we're in business with the stain part of it, now comes the clear finish to decide on. Decisions decisions. Thanks for the help .
Keep the veneer, trade in the............ well, maybe not!
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