This is what happened to Rod Davies when he used orange:
help about pipe stain
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- The Awesomer
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Re: help about pipe stain
I'm thrilled you remember that.RadDavis wrote:I did once. Ernie didn't like it.BobR wrote:
Anyone here use orange?
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Re: help about pipe stain
I remember every asshole that returns a pipe. You're in my book.e Markle wrote:I'm thrilled you remember that.RadDavis wrote:I did once. Ernie didn't like it.BobR wrote:
Anyone here use orange?
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Re: help about pipe stain
you know david, after I posted this I remembered that Eltang does his golden contrast with buffing back the black (or at least so ive seen in videos).d.huber wrote:Sorry Evan, but this is inaccurate. I do all my contrast stains this way.wisemanpipes wrote:using a buffing wheel is just inaccurate to create high contrast...
my previous comment was therefore inaccurate, but I guess my experience with using buffing to get good contrast was unsuccessful.
I have used a buffing wheel to do contrasts no doubt, but often didn't end up how I would have liked and often have muddled colours.
I prefer hand sanding and alcohol washes because it allows me to have the same high contrast through out the pipe and let me work slow.
Re: help about pipe stain
Ain't nothin' wrong with that either. This is another scenario where whatever works for you is what's best to do.wisemanpipes wrote:you know david, after I posted this I remembered that Eltang does his golden contrast with buffing back the black (or at least so ive seen in videos).d.huber wrote:Sorry Evan, but this is inaccurate. I do all my contrast stains this way.wisemanpipes wrote:using a buffing wheel is just inaccurate to create high contrast...
my previous comment was therefore inaccurate, but I guess my experience with using buffing to get good contrast was unsuccessful.
I have used a buffing wheel to do contrasts no doubt, but often didn't end up how I would have liked and often have muddled colours.
I prefer hand sanding and alcohol washes because it allows me to have the same high contrast through out the pipe and let me work slow.
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Re: help about pipe stain
I stained one almost like this one. I sanded to 1000 grit then coated the pipe with Fibings yellow a few times. Sanded with 800 and 1000. the diluted Fiebigs Mohagony a bit and applied 2 light coates. then used denatured alchol on a rag and wiped the pipe and sanded again with 800 and 1000. the yellow popped very nice. waxed and buffed and sold the next day.
Re: help about pipe stain
I've done a similar stain using orange as the base then sanding and using yellow as a top coat. I used to buff with red tripoli for to remove my contrast stain. I switched to hand sanding mostly because of the types of stain I use now. I use a alcohol based contrast stain followed by a water based stain. The water based stain doesn't cut through the tripoli grease. I prefer the water based stain over the alcohol because you don't get nearly as much bleeding of the stain. Here's the result of the pipe I did:
The photo is a bit dark. The actual color is much lighter like the OP pipe.
The photo is a bit dark. The actual color is much lighter like the OP pipe.