Thank you so much for such an excellent step-by-step instruction video. I followed your instructions and had excellent results.

@DylanAdams.

15 күн бұрын

I appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment. 👍🏼

This is one of the best instructional videos I have seen on staining! Excellent job!!

@DylanAdams.

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! Thanks for watching 👍🏼

For staining purposes, don't ever use store bought wood filler, make your own. For small dings or gaps (paper thickness or thinner) wipe a dab of glue on your finger and wipe it across the gap, making sure you press the glue into the gap, wipe off the excess outside the game and run the orbital sander over the glued gap in a circular motion 3 to five times. Allow to dry and when you stain the filler gap will take the same tone as the surrounding wood, it will be darker than the adjacent pieces but blended better than a light or dark filler. For larger gaps like a dado joint not being perfectly square, due to board warp or twist, fill the gap with wood glue for extra strength of the joint and to give filler something to grab besides your fingers. Get some small fine shavings of the wood you are working with from the router table and put them on some cardboard and mix wood glue into the pile of shavings with a toothpick until you get a putty that is just barely wet throughout with glue and then push this into the gap to fill the hole. This will take a decent stain when dry and while it will have chaotic "grain" because it is basically home made "engineered wood" it will be much better blended than store bought wood filler when stained. This is why your granddad always cleaned off his router table and table saw before a new project and always had like 20 coffee cans in his wood shop labeled with different types of saw dust and wood shavings.

@DylanAdams.

2 ай бұрын

Great tips! Thanks for watching. Small dents without the wood grains being torn can be brought back out using a wet rag and a clothing iron, the steam can help raise the grain back.

Beatifull finish

@DylanAdams.

3 ай бұрын

Thank you. Thanks for watching 👍🏼

Ah, golden oak, the color of my '80s suburban childhood

@DylanAdams.

5 ай бұрын

Goes well with hunter green carpet and wood paneling in the basement. Thanks for watching! Cheers

@sawdustcrypto3987

5 ай бұрын

@@DylanAdams. 🤣 🤣

Good job on your video, Dylan. You seemed a bit nervous but you don’t need to be. Your information was helpful and you know what you’re doing

@DylanAdams.

9 ай бұрын

I appreciate the feedback. Still a bit camera shy. Getting better I hope. Thanks for watching!!!

Thank you so much🙏🏻 very well explained

@DylanAdams.

10 ай бұрын

I appreciate that! Thank you for watching!! 😃

Thanks nice job very informative

@DylanAdams.

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! 👍🏼

Great information Dylan. 👍 Good tips too to help beginners learn to stain and varnish easily.

@DylanAdams.

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Hopefully when the shop is done I'll have a spot to film more demonstrations like this

Thank you, thank you thank you, I have been looking on KZread for a long time I finally found you. The instruction you gave me is what I’ve been looking for, in a few weeks. I will be sanding down my polyurethane floors with 120,150,220, sandpaper on a side y side orbital machine? Thank you. Before I stain I will use there Prestain.

@DylanAdams.

8 ай бұрын

If you're sanding a lot of flooring I would look into larger flooring sanders that you can rent from some Home Depots. Would save a lot of time! Thanks for watching and good luck on your project!!! 👍🏼

@johnhouli3450

8 ай бұрын

@@DylanAdams. it’s a very large machine extremely heavy 35 year old Clarke Orbital Sander with a 120 grit screen and 120 sandpaper all the way up to 220 I will have to test it first before doing my 20x16 living room. The floor is from 1950. I’m 66 last time I handled that machine in was 56.

Great video! I am new to staining, is the don’t use water based poly on oil stain a myth? It seems to work out just fine for you. Thanks in advance!

@DylanAdams.

Жыл бұрын

Once the oil is dry you can use water based poly. Oil clears are more rare where I am I almost exclusively use water based. Thanks for watching!

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@DylanAdams.

2 ай бұрын

te pardonner?

If you sand off the dust before you put the final coat of poly on wouldn’t there be dust on that one too? Why not sand after the final coat? Great vid btw 👍🏿

@DylanAdams.

7 ай бұрын

When you light sand before the final coat it dulls the finish a little bit so it doesn't look good for the final product. The dust that lands in the final coat is just environmental dust which is hard to avoid unless you use a really clean finishing room. Thanks for watching ! 🙂

HELP! i have 5 steps, new oak, put Natural by minwax (drops) it made it too red...what shall I do? sand it a bit ? i want the grain, but don't want to bring out the red.... something pretty and natural . thank you.

@DylanAdams.

Жыл бұрын

Yes you can always sand back to bare wood with solid wood. Are you using red oak or white oak? Red oak has a natural orange hue to it and white oak looks more brown. Good luck !!

I just purchased red oak cabinets that has not been painted or sealed and I just want to see your van not paint or stain what kind of sealer should I use?

@DylanAdams.

Жыл бұрын

If you're only planning on using a sealer I've had good results with the varathane branded water based products. You will most likely still have to dampen the wood to raise the grain and give a final sand. I would test the back of a cabinet to see if you like the look. Good luck! 👍🏼

Great Video? You didn't use the pre-stain wood conditioner (and seem to have gotten away with it). What are you thoughts on that?

@DylanAdams.

7 ай бұрын

I use pre stain wood conditioner on more difficult species of would like pine or maple for example but with woods that have open pores like red oak in the video I don't see the need for it in my experience. Thanks for watching 👍

@LoreMIpsum-vs6dx

7 ай бұрын

@@DylanAdams. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you passing on your knowledge and experience.

Dylan do you think by screening the red oak hardwood floors that has 10 year old oil base Polyurethane made by Minwax will come off and I will then prestain then one hour later Stain. What do you think. Ty

@DylanAdams.

8 ай бұрын

If it's a solid hardwood floor and not engineered hardwood you should be fine. Just takes some time to get back down to bare wood. Make sure you wear a good dust mask too.

@johnhouli3450

8 ай бұрын

@@DylanAdams. thank you. Bare wood floor I’m not sure if a sidebyside buffer with 120 sandpaper can bring me to bare wood. I do know the top coat will be removed.

@DylanAdams.

8 ай бұрын

120 will get you there eventually yes

@johnhouli3450

8 ай бұрын

Thank you. Have a great Holiday

@DylanAdams.

8 ай бұрын

Happy holidays!

If you do stain with oil stain and forget to wear gloves. Olive oil helps get it off.

@DylanAdams.

Жыл бұрын

Great tip! Thanks 👍🏼

Why did you do the “grain raising” step if you were going to use oil-based stain next? Doesn’t the oil-base stain seal the wood enough to prevent the water base varnish from raising the grain?

@DylanAdams.

Жыл бұрын

I have found that any moisture can cause the grain to raise. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't and this step has no negative effects on the final product in my experience so it just has become a part of my work flow. Thanks for watching.

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Жыл бұрын

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@JuanLopez-hj9vi

Жыл бұрын

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Good video and very informative. Could've gone without the mouth breathing.

@DylanAdams.

8 ай бұрын

Something to work on. Thanks for the feedback. 👍🏼

@feebles1231

8 ай бұрын

@@DylanAdams. We're literally halfway through doing half the steps you've provided on our piece of red oak. Working out flawlessly. You da man. We had zero idea about the damp cloth technique. Totally worked.

@DylanAdams.

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! 👍🏼

If I sanded with 80, 120, and 220 with a sander and went over it with 400 and extremely lightly with 600 manually, how can recover prior to staining? 🫣😳😬 I am refinishing and have sanded two White Clad ice box nightstands but sanded too much is my guess. TYIA

@DylanAdams.

Жыл бұрын

If it's red oak it will probably still accept the stain. I would test your colour on a small area that won't be as visible in the project. Might be one of the cases where you have to leave the stain on for longer before wiping. You can always sand it again with 80-100 grit to help have more open pores. Good luck for your project Cheers!