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   nikkiwood | Oct 15, 2006 01:48am | #1

   Have you instead considered using a dewaxed shellac, like Seal Coat?

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   Bonka | Oct 15, 2006 03:42am | #2

   Yes. I had such a good result when staining a fir fireplace mantle  using hide gule  it thought I would stay with it.  May use shellac as I have heard so may positives about it.

   Thank you

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   Rich14 | Oct 15, 2006 07:48am | #3

   Glue size as a stain?Interesting.

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   Bonka | Oct 15, 2006 05:48pm | #4

   Not as a stain.  I use it to put on wood such as pine to avoid the uneveness of the stain.  I have  a commercial bottle that is almost used up and I would like to know how much a regular mixture formula would be diluted with water to achive the same results.

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   Rich14 | Oct 15, 2006 05:55pm | #5

   Bonka,It's really quite variable. There is no exact formula. Hide glue size is simply dilute hide glue. Disolve a volume of hot hide glue in 2 volumes of hot water.Rich

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   forestgirl | Oct 15, 2006 06:21pm | #6

   Bonka, I just saw that number the other day, and now can't remember it!  I'll keep looking, but in the meantime, Jeff Jewitt sells ready-made sizing on this page [bottom] (for those who doubt your sanity, LOL).  It has uses other than evening stain penetration.  Poor Hide Glue, around forever, and nobody remembers his great talents.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 
   

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   RickL | Oct 16, 2006 08:04pm | #7

   I've always used the 1/10 for making sizing. I've used yellow glue and shellac with that ratio for years. Franklin sell premixed sizing as well.