Bob38S
22nd November 2010, 12:45 PM
G'day all.
I'm trying to increase my knowledge and avoid some of my previous costly, time consuming, hit & miss errors in matching wood stains.
After trying most types of stains - water, turps, spirit they all have a problem when you need to mix colours to match an existing item or environment. What I'm chasing is an easy way or formula/method for generally changing colours.
To my eyes [which are not all that brilliant] all wood stains seem to fall into 3 general areas - yellow, red, brown which when mixed give all of the colours on the charts. Years ago I can recall seeing colour wheels which would give you a colour when this is mixed with that etc but I've never seen [or can find something like this] for stains.
My preference for use are spirit stains but I'm wanting to go beyond the commercially available tones.
Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Bob
I'm trying to increase my knowledge and avoid some of my previous costly, time consuming, hit & miss errors in matching wood stains.
After trying most types of stains - water, turps, spirit they all have a problem when you need to mix colours to match an existing item or environment. What I'm chasing is an easy way or formula/method for generally changing colours.
To my eyes [which are not all that brilliant] all wood stains seem to fall into 3 general areas - yellow, red, brown which when mixed give all of the colours on the charts. Years ago I can recall seeing colour wheels which would give you a colour when this is mixed with that etc but I've never seen [or can find something like this] for stains.
My preference for use are spirit stains but I'm wanting to go beyond the commercially available tones.
Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Bob