Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler stain/wood combination to match Boston Cherry

General Finishes. Found in woodworking stores.

Depending on species choice, I'd sart w/ Black Cherry. You can drastically change the top color of the stain by underdying first, a red, maybe orange.

Apply sealer coat after dye and again after stain. Sand lightly with used 220 (or new 320) before first coat of varnish.

Minwax oil-based products are very good. Their water-based ones suck. I'd use a good quality wipe on poly, 3+ coats, 320 hand-sanding in between coats.

Good luck!

Perfect timing!
Back goes the water based can I bought last night to experiment with. I'm glad it was too muggy to bother getting into a messy job last night.

This is starting to be too much like a chemistry lab project in school. LOL! I hated chemistry. Loved physics. Well, at least until the advanced math started getting the better of me. As my proff told me, I was a master of concept but would always be an unwitting slave to the formulae.

I used the oil based product. I didn't realize they had a water based one.

Clarification: all water based products suck and not just Minwax. But they dry quick, easy clean up and they don't stink. Pick your poison.