Help with dye

[erogenousjones17]

I'm sort of at a loss here folks.

Over Easter weekend, my dad and I built a small bench out of pine for the, ahem, vestibule of my apartment. We were going to paint it (for shame!), but then my girlfriend found a neat finishing idea in one of my dad's woodworking magazines: walnut stain over of ebony dye, with a wipe-on poly finish on top. Familiar concept? :laughing7:

Anyway, I was prepared for the finishing process to be a nightmare--I suck at finishing--but what I wasn't expecting was not being able to find any water-based dye! Anyone out there know where I can get my hands on some, keeping in mind the fact that I'm up in Canadia?

Thanks a bunch!

 

[bagman67]

I'm sort of at a loss here folks.

Over Easter weekend, my dad and I built a small bench out of pine for the, ahem, vestibule of my apartment. We were going to paint it (for shame!), but then my girlfriend found a neat finishing idea in one of my dad's woodworking magazines: walnut stain over of ebony dye, with a wipe-on poly finish on top. Familiar concept? :laughing7:

Anyway, I was prepared for the finishing process to be a nightmare--I suck at finishing--but what I wasn't expecting was not being able to find any water-based dye! Anyone out there know where I can get my hands on some, keeping in mind the fact that I'm up in Canadia?

Thanks a bunch!

Well, a couple things come to mind here, one of which is that water-based dyes might not work so hot on pine.  Another is the issue of where you're shopping.


General Finishes sells its products in Canada - and they have some nice water-based dyes.  You're most likely to find them at specialty woodworking or unfinished furniture stores.


Try this:


http://www.generalfinishes.com/where-buy

 

[erogenousjones17]

Thanks for the link!

Now I'm curious to know why you don't think it'll work on pine?

 

[Patrick from Davis]

Check with the woodworking forums/cabinet building information bases.  Frequently dyes look blotchy on some species of wood.  Birdseye maple, for instance, it does this, where as flame and quilt maple it does not.  Also there are some woods with large amounts of oil in them that impede the dye.  You can try to treat the wood, but the process is harder.
Patrick