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Strip: Staining snafu......
By:Paul Sylvester
Date: 3/16/2010, 8:26 pm

Building a hybrid and used eastern white cedar and western cedar along with some redwood strips to make a nice but simple pattern on the deck. Then bought some solar lux med red mahogany.Did a small test and it seemed ok but after putting one coat on with a rag it is way,way too dark for me.
All the wood looks the same, you can't see any patterns or difference in the wood tones.
Glassed it and it is done.
Anyone using the med red mahogany? Are you thinning it to lighten it?
Kind of bummed that I have almost totally lost the wood strip look..maybe it will look better in the daylight.
thoughts?

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Strip: Staining snafu......
Paul Sylvester -- 3/16/2010, 8:26 pm
Re: Strip: Staining snafu......
eric -- 3/16/2010, 8:36 pm
Re: Strip: Staining snafu......
Roger D -- 3/17/2010, 11:23 am
Re: Strip: Staining snafu......
Tin Whiskers -- 3/21/2010, 10:59 am
Re: Strip: Staining snafu......
Paul Sylvester -- 3/18/2010, 8:11 pm
Re: Strip: Staining snafu......
Bill Hamm -- 3/21/2010, 1:58 am