Hoping for some saving words of wisdom. Wife and I had taken part in a wood burning class for fun, made two platters meant as serving trays. Not sure of the actual wood composition of the platters, definitely soft like pine.
Anyway, we had stained them a few months ago and I finally got around to putting a coat of poly on them this morning. Within 2 hours the wood burned portion and the general color of the stained wood was nearly neutralized. can barely see any wood burned areas now and it's like it was never stained. Only area that seems to have kept it's color is the endgrain.
Nothing terribly special about the poly, some minwax fast drying. Maybe it was a bad batch?
Trying to figure out what in the world may have happened and what the best course of action would be to restore these so we can actually see the burned design.
Only one coat on so far, so if sanding it down is the first step at least I won't be trying to undo a bunch of layers.
Thanks