I have tries using Jell stains with less than sucess.. I am sure there are folks in here that know how to us them. Not me.
I only get a color I like that never dries! I’d say a woodworker is only the ‘grunt’ that made the work.. The wood finisher made it beautiful!
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Yes, gel stains still need to have excess wiped off. But there is a solution to getting dark shades. It's called dye. Dye is easy to use, much less prone to blotching than most stains, and just about the only way of getting darfker tones, but without obsucring the natural grain of the wood.
gel Stain :-(
Personally I'am not a big fan of gel stain. There are some instances where I use it to do a little "dry pad" toneing, or shading. But Dye is the best way to go, you can always start light , and strengthen the dye more if you want to go darker. Also the dye is much more of a penetrant and can go "pretty deep" as compared to a gel which is basically a surface colour that can be removed with a good scratch. And good luck repairing that scratch to rematch perfectly.
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