I am making a coffee table for a customer who wants it finished in, yes you guessed it, weathered yellow. I’ve never done those types of finishes before-can somebody tell me what I need to do and what to use. The table is poplar with maple legs.
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Use a phenolic resin varnish like Waterlox Original Gloss or Satin over an amber shellac. The amber shellac and the phenolic resin used to make the Waterlox will impart quite a bit of yellow.
What is the wood being used?
When he says weathered yellow, is he talking about a pigmented surface? In that case I would think about milk paint. It could be underpainted with some other color with an overpaint of yellow, with edges worn away to reveal glimpses of the under paint. It would be sealed, and the color intensified, with a oil/varnish mix, such as Watco. You might have to mix colors to get the weathered shade you or the customer wants.
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