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Help looking for staining info
Eric Krewson:
As far as blending one color into another color you can put the different stains side by side and use a fan brush to scrub between the two and they will blend seamlessly into each other.
Here is an explanation of sorts on a much larger medium with a plain brush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6jTEXQjI5s
I was a duck decoy carver once and had to learn the correct brush strokes to make my ducks paint job look real. This is the belly of a shore bird that I used a fan brush to transition the yellow color to white.
bentstick54:
Thanks Eric, I really like the look of that bow. I will definitely play around with that method.
Pat B:
There is a difference between Fiebings dye and stain. The dye will dry in a matter of a few minutes, the stain takes a while. The stain is used for an antiquing effect going in low spots and mostly removed from the high spots. I'm not sure if Eric mistakenly used stain instead of dye but that needs clarification. Eric has done beautiful decorations on his bows and his methods can be helpful to others just getting into this crazy addiction of ours.
Eric Krewson:
I do use dye almost 100% of the time to "stain" the wood on bows, just a play on words. The exception is when I use dye from walnut hulls to stain arrows or match repairs to the wood on a walnut stocked B/P rifle.
The other exception is when I use a nitric acid solution called aqufortis to stain maple gun stocks, the results are quite striking. To use aqufortis one paints it on a stock, let it dry and go over the wood with a heat gun to "blush" the the wood. Heat makes aqufortis react with the tannin in wood to bring out the final color.
It adds a pretty, deep brown color to hickory
One time I thought "aqufortis makes maple look incredible, I wonder what it will do to osage". It was big disappointment, it turned osage as black as coal.
bentstick54:
Thanks Pat and Eric. I’m hoping on finding some time between cleaning up leaves in the yard, sneaking in a little time in the deer woods, and doctor appointments to play around with staining a bow I’m trying to finish up.
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