new2woodwrk Posted September 4, 2020 Report Share Posted September 4, 2020 I did a bunch of cuts this week. The cuts came out OK but the staining, not so good I won't be staining these anymore and will be trying the Mineral Oil bath thing. No clue what happened to the Poodle and the Penguin, but boy did they come out crappy - samples only now I guess. Leo and Papillon came out fair The Manatee came out the best I think - the only one I didn't stain... I did a bunch of framed cuts also, I'll post once their mounted and finished Thanks as always in advance for reading Dave Monk, RabidAlien, OzarkSawdust and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meflick Posted September 4, 2020 Report Share Posted September 4, 2020 What kind of wood were you using? Some wood just doesn't take stains very well. Cuttings look good. new2woodwrk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjR Posted September 4, 2020 Report Share Posted September 4, 2020 Very nice work.. Sometimes the torch effect works better than any stains will. Then just a light spray poly over it. new2woodwrk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonkort Posted September 4, 2020 Report Share Posted September 4, 2020 in an ideal world ALL of our projects would come out great!!! but of course this NOT an ideal world and the best we can do is try to learn from our mastakes new2woodwrk and amazingkevin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new2woodwrk Posted September 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2020 7 hours ago, meflick said: What kind of wood were you using? Some wood just doesn't take stains very well. Cuttings look good. All except the Penguin were poplar. The Penguin I think was a left over piece i had from when I started - probably a Lowes Common piece or might have been pallet wood - not really sure about that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyred Posted September 5, 2020 Report Share Posted September 5, 2020 The way the stain soaked into the end grain on the cut lines makes it look like they had a finish applied before staining. Tom new2woodwrk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomanydogs Posted September 5, 2020 Report Share Posted September 5, 2020 Nice work on all of these. Sorry about the staining on some of them. new2woodwrk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveww1 Posted September 5, 2020 Report Share Posted September 5, 2020 nice work new2woodwrk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new2woodwrk Posted September 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2020 12 hours ago, jollyred said: The way the stain soaked into the end grain on the cut lines makes it look like they had a finish applied before staining. Tom Thanks Tom, I only used pre-stain on the poodle. The Penguin was broke in several pieces and glued back together and then pre-stained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted September 5, 2020 Report Share Posted September 5, 2020 Make lemonade out of lemons! Add something as a distraction to move the eye toward the good parts. Not that glitter would work for these but glitter definitely hid all my mistakes when making names.you,LL figure it out, maybe re stain ? new2woodwrk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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