Woodgrain finish on MDF

[MOULDY]

I saw on one of the changing rooms shows from overseas a simple way of staining MDF to get awoodgrain effect. They used a tool of some sort and dragged it over the stain at different angles to achieve the effect .Does anybody know what it is and where to get one.
thanks

[ubeaut]

Should be a law against these shows. Don't watch them.

It was probably a graining tool. Usually available at most good paint or hardware shops. I have never seen it used with stain over MDF but there is no reason why it wouldn't work. I would be surprised if there wasn't something sealing the MDF first though as most stains would soak in before you could work the tool over it, especially on a surface of any size. Graining is usually done with paint not stain and usually over a light coloured base coat of paint.

Hope this helps.

Cheers - Neil.

[MOULDY]

Thanks Neil SEE WHAT i CAN FIND AND TRY
mouldy

[soundman]

See if you can find a book on graining & texturing.

Or ask a post war pomy painter & decorator. ( you can't get the wood you know)

"Uncle harold" (no relation) did a bedroom suite for my mum years ago He called it antiquing.

More a painting process than a staining thing.

Starting to come back in vogue in a fashion.

The method can produce allsorts of timberlike and stone like effects.