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   WillGeorge | Apr 12, 2005 10:05pm | #1

   Be like Microsoft.. Make it a FEATURE!

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   DougF | Apr 12, 2005 10:14pm | #2

   Tim,

   Equally across both the ash and the oak?  If unequal, which species is darker? What did you use as stickers and how long were they stickered? 

   Doug

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   TimNott | Apr 13, 2005 01:13pm | #6

   Don't know how long it was stickered as I bought the planks from a sawmill.

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   LeeGrindinger | Apr 12, 2005 11:55pm | #3

   Nope, sticker stain runs very deeply into wood, it's caused by mold that forms when the wood is above 18% moisture content. I've heard of attempts that use oxalic acid but never with any real success.

   Lee

   MontanaFest
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   Tao | Apr 13, 2005 12:56am | #4

   I can think of only two suggestions:

   1 Try a two-part wood bleach containing sodium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide, available in a lot of paint stores. This will bleach the whole surface to nearly white, and might take out the stains.

   2 Stain the wood dark enough to mask the stains. Selective use of a dye stain might be useful here.

   Practice on samples / scraps first.

   Michael R.

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   SgianDubh | Apr 13, 2005 02:04am | #5

   As others have said, those sticker stains can penetrate deeply.

   In my experience about the only way to deal with them is much along the lines that Woodwiz suggested.

   To add to what Woodwiz said my preference is to bleach the wood white with an A + B bleach.

   Bleach it hard enough and you should end up at least with a white background that you can colour to whatever you want, and for the most part bleaching doesn't disguise the essential wood characteristics and grain, whatever that was in the first place.

   However, I can't say if the old problematic sticker stains will come back some 20 years, 30 years, or more, later. Perhaps they do, but it's only been about twenty five years since I did my first major bleaching and re-colouring job and I haven't seen that piece of sycamore furniture since then.

   I guess it's still okay, but I just don't know. Slainte.

   RJFurniture

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   TimNott | Apr 13, 2005 01:16pm | #7

   Thanks to you and woodwiz - I think I'll live with the stains - they are on doors rather than furniture, and I can't really face the bleaching option.Thanks to allTim