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04-15-2006, 09:19 AM
Just looked at Bill Youngs photos of the rosemaling clocks... I also have been making them out of Baltic Birch to keep the price down....
I have found a new (at least new to this area) type of acrylic based stain... Samans is the brand
It comes in a variety of colors and is water cleanup... Most water based stain I have found just lay on the wood and do not permeate the grain... This stain not only works like an oil based stain but it has no smell and does not raise the grain of the wood.... I have the local supplier getting me a color chart so I can mix my own colors from 6 - 8 basic colors.... I went to a farm supply store and bought various sizes of seringes (without the needles) to accurately proportion my mixtures
Some of the rosemal clocks I did I stained the background in blue, reds and some in green... the reds in this stain are more vivid than the oil stains I was using... I still use Danish Oil as the finish coat to highlite the grain..... The blues, reds and greens are the popular roemal colors in the area (lots of Norwegians and Scandinavians up here).
On another note... At the show, I found a young lady who lives 1/2 a block from me who does rosemaling... I may make some clocks and not scroll the design into the wood... Just have her actually paint the design on ... we'll see how it goes.
Check out the Samans stains ... they work for me, perhaps they will work for you
I have found a new (at least new to this area) type of acrylic based stain... Samans is the brand
It comes in a variety of colors and is water cleanup... Most water based stain I have found just lay on the wood and do not permeate the grain... This stain not only works like an oil based stain but it has no smell and does not raise the grain of the wood.... I have the local supplier getting me a color chart so I can mix my own colors from 6 - 8 basic colors.... I went to a farm supply store and bought various sizes of seringes (without the needles) to accurately proportion my mixtures
Some of the rosemal clocks I did I stained the background in blue, reds and some in green... the reds in this stain are more vivid than the oil stains I was using... I still use Danish Oil as the finish coat to highlite the grain..... The blues, reds and greens are the popular roemal colors in the area (lots of Norwegians and Scandinavians up here).
On another note... At the show, I found a young lady who lives 1/2 a block from me who does rosemaling... I may make some clocks and not scroll the design into the wood... Just have her actually paint the design on ... we'll see how it goes.
Check out the Samans stains ... they work for me, perhaps they will work for you