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On floors I am reasonably confident on a roll on application, although I agree you need to work it consistently and can’t go back to touch up later. The perils of an all-in-one product I suppose.

Thanks both. I was a bit concerned a tinted product would end up with streaky coverage with a wipe on application. I guess the best way to find out is to try.

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Is there a lightly white tinted all in one sealer (or finisher) for shiplap pine walls similar to Bona NaturalSeal? My understanding is that product will drip if used vertically.

Ideally that can...

I picked up a gallon of zinger seal coat - more than I need but this seems like a pretty versatile product.Question - do you think I should expect a difference between sealcoat by itself and sealcoat...

Okay, here are some pictures of my experiments to date. First the best candidates. The samples, from left to right, are: 1)BLO only, 2)BLO, 2 coats of 1# shellac, thin coat of dark walnut gel stain,...

interesting - did you mix with water or alcohol? The coloring I saw (and see) was the same wet and dried.

I'll upload the pictures tonight - the dye coloring is dramatic to say the least (and I...

Didn't get a chance to take pictures last night, I'll do so tonight hopefully.

I did have some promising results with gel stain over shellac so I'll going to experiment with that a little more....

I'm just guessing but I think its probably a lot harder to get an even finish on a veneer then a piece of the solid wood? I have tried Watco medium walnut and black walnut - the former looks good but...

I did try the dye (dissolved in water) initially on the bare wood and found the results to be horrible - like I had simply painted the wood with watercolor paint.

When I was doing some research...

So I tried tinting the shellac with the aniline dye powders I have - I just mixed the powder directly to the mixed shellac. I had to add a *lot* of the powder to get any noticeable color change, so...

I did try a couple of tinted varnishes this weekend. The Polyshades as you suggested was very difficult to get an even tone with, and since I will be finishing a fairly large surface there is no hope...

So it sounds like I only have a couple of options (I would prefer not to use lacquer):

1)gel stain over dewaxed shellac (then seal with another coat of shellac?)

2)tinting the shellac itself...

Would a water based finish apply well overtop of a base coat of shellac?Most people don't like Polyshades but for this application would multiple thin layers (possibly over a clear base coat of poly)...

Well I'm still experimenting with this. The biggest problem I am having is that when I try to stain the zebrawood veneer it's picking up "bands" anywhere from 1/4" to 1" thick where the stain absorbs...

Thanks - good reading, I didn't know that.

Seems like I may want to experiment some more with other tinted finishes then - just a couple coats of shellac has not really darkened the color...

Thanks guys. I put it in a hot water bath last night and that dissolved the shellac pretty quickly.

I wiped on two coats and the color change wasn't as dramatic as I had expected. I'm going to...

Just put it in a hot water bath?

I got my sample shellac flakes last night and picked up some 99% isopropanol from the pharmacy to mix it up. (Denatured ethanol is very difficult to find in canada it seems)

12 hours later and...

Thanks. What do you thin it to for wiping - 1# ?

Ordered some dark garnet shellac - should be here for me to try it out on the weekend. I'm thinking at this point the base cost of linseed and then a couple of coats of shellac may give me exactly...

Thanks guys. Would I apply the garnet shellac over BLO and/or some kind of staining/dyeing, or directly? (I guess I can experiment with a sample)

Also is spraying the shellac integral to the...

Its possible it could be wenge - but the picture described it as zebrawood. Yes I have a quartersawn veneer. The grain on my veneer isn't quite as tight as this picture.

I guess I'm wondering how...

Hi Guys,

I bought some Zebrawood veneer to make some accent wall panelling and I'm having difficulty achieving the look I am hoping for. Ideally I'd like to end up with something like this:
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