A friend has a pecan table, finished with shellac. She wants to strip it, and stain/dye it to a very dark, black or almost black, color. Does anyone have an experience with Pecan? I have never worked with it. Would the steel wool – vinegar trick work?
Thanks for the help.
Alan
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Using a black water-based dye stain would probably be the easiest and simplest way to ebonize it. The nice thing with the dyes is that you can add a small amount of yellow dye to the black dye, for example, and end up with a rich, warm off-black that might be very pleasing to the eye.
Regards,
Kevin
Good idea; thanks. Transtint a good choice? I have Jeff's other colors and they are great.
I've never used Transtint. I use Sherwin Williams' dye stain concentrate line. But, I've heard good things about the Transtints and don't see why they wouldn't do just as good of a job. I think the Transtints are comparable to what I use anyway.
What made me think to suggest the idea of being able to add small amounts of other dye colors to sorta tint the blackness of the overall look is a job I did about 9 months ago where I had to come up with a match to this color they called "Warm Chocolate" which was basically a super dark brown/black on red oak that actually looked very rich compared to just a simple ebonized black. It was a subtle thing, though. It was more brown than anything. But, so dark as to be very close to black. My dye formula was mostly black dye stain with a bit of yellow and red dye thrown in to warm it up. The client absolutely loved it. But.... the whole Warm Chocolate thing was their idea to begin with.
Regards,
Kevin
Dick Blick India Ink works well.
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