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Summary: Learn tips and techniques for how to refinish old wood furniture, including safety tips for applying new wood stain, in this free how-to video.
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Jennifer Ware Jennifer Ware sews hand made quilted holiday stockings, quilts, pillowcases, and other special order items by request. She learned various sewing and stichin... read more
So I've decided for this project; what I am going to do is use a red mahagony stain which will show the different various grains through here nicely as you can see some of the grains right here. And when you are doing a staining project there are lots of other things you need just besides the stain. It's not as simple as going to the store and grabbing a stain and coming back home. You need to make sure you have a lot of different of materials on hand with you to complete your project. First off, you want an area where you can make a mess. Basically what I mean is you can put a tarp out and make sure that you have some older clothes on that you don't mind getting a little bit of stain on and just make sure there are no children, cats or dogs or anything like that around. Secondly, you need a good pair of gloves and what I mean by that is you want a pair of chemical resistant gloves not just some simple gloves for maybe washing the dishes or something like that because there can be a lot of chemicals that are acatually in the stains that you don't want to get in your hands; so chemical resistant gloves are really the way to go.