trackman Posted July 11, 2020 Report Posted July 11, 2020 Anybody try bleaching wood? I needed a small amount of white. A guy told me about using bleach. Put in pan for 15 minutes let dry did again two more times. You see in picture how much it whitened. Cut off from same 1/8” thick ash board. Dave Monk, wombatie and jollyred 3 Quote
merlin Posted July 11, 2020 Report Posted July 11, 2020 Fascinating...Did you use a mix of bleach and water or just straight bleach... If you left it for 15 minutes and did twice more wood not leaving for 3/4 hour + do the same.... Cheers Merlin... Quote
Denny Knappen Posted July 11, 2020 Report Posted July 11, 2020 Interesting. Never did that. I use Aspen for white wood. ben2008 1 Quote
trackman Posted July 11, 2020 Author Report Posted July 11, 2020 1 hour ago, merlin said: Fascinating...Did you use a mix of bleach and water or just straight bleach... If you left it for 15 minutes and did twice more wood not leaving for 3/4 hour + do the same.... Cheers Merlin... I just used bleach right out of bottle. Told that by letting wood dry it will draw more bleach into it. Don’t know if true but it worked this away. I didn’t have any aspen an don’t need much. Thought what the heck try something new lol wombatie 1 Quote
trackman Posted July 12, 2020 Author Report Posted July 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Rolf said: How did you get rid of the smell? Really there isn’t any after totally dry. At least with my smell, now my wife will be different story lol. What I am working on is a 1925 Ford truck. Needed white for the tire rims. So very small amount needed. Quote
rjweb Posted July 12, 2020 Report Posted July 12, 2020 Interesting process, looking forward to see the finished truck, RJ danny 1 Quote
redwine Posted July 12, 2020 Report Posted July 12, 2020 This is interesting and I will be needing some white wood to do some swans! The big box stores here used to carry aspen but no longer so will give this a try! Trackman, I have the same problem, my sense of smell has long gone and it has to be a very strong odor for me to detect! My wife, on the other hand can detect the faintness of any scent! She gets upset with me when she wants to try a new perfume as she likes one with low scent that I cannot smell! Erv Quote
dgman Posted July 12, 2020 Report Posted July 12, 2020 My question is how deep will the bleach go? If you are doing an Intarsia project, then shape it, will you have to bleach It again? ben2008 1 Quote
trackman Posted July 12, 2020 Author Report Posted July 12, 2020 6 hours ago, dgman said: My question is how deep will the bleach go? If you are doing an Intarsia project, then shape it, will you have to bleach It again? I haven’t cut into it so not sure how deep it went. I just need the surface white. But I would guess if doing thick stock you may have to bleach again after shaping. Quote
JimErn Posted July 13, 2020 Report Posted July 13, 2020 Some woods bleach well, others do not, and some take almost 24 hrs to get it done. Walnut as an example takes 24 hrs of soaking and then it comes out grey about half way down (top to bottom in a 3/4 thick piece) so try it on scrap before you commit to it Quote
kmmcrafts Posted July 13, 2020 Report Posted July 13, 2020 I've never heard of this one... but one day I needed a darker piece of wood and did some research.. I learned that you can put a piece of poplar in the oven and turn it into a piece of walnut, LOL.. It takes a couple hours on a low setting.. Think I used 250F for about 4 hours.. Wife didn't mind and actually encouraged me to try it since she was leaving for a few hours.. I did just that.. Let me say.. you should have a exhaust fan.. While the smell wasn't horrid at all to me she didn't like it when she came back home.. Sort of smelled like I would think roasting nuts would smell like.. but maybe on a stronger level, LOL Just know if you try it.. do not have your wood already cut to size as it'll shrink .. and it doesn't darken on the inside of the wood all that far either.. Maybe longer baking would? The lumber store I go to sells it like this.. They advertise it as thermo modified wood.. Quote
Norm Fengstad Posted July 14, 2020 Report Posted July 14, 2020 Bought some thermo modified wood (poplar) looked similar to walnut but walnut is much nicer to work with kmmcrafts 1 Quote
scrollntole Posted July 23, 2020 Report Posted July 23, 2020 (edited) I once tried "pickling" some wood. I'll have to look it up again, but in essence you paint the wood. It seemed to blend in to the wood; did not hide the wood grain. Edited July 23, 2020 by scrollntole Oges 1 Quote
Oges Posted July 24, 2020 Report Posted July 24, 2020 I was watching a lady on Youtube yesterday doing some Intarsia and she used Old Masters Pickling White on some white wood to make it whiter, but looking into it, it looks like it all types of timber colours making them white Quote
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