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2. 7 Steps to Painting Your Kitchen Cabinets - AOL

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   Step 1: Assess your cabinets. Not all kitchen cabinets can be painted. The best candidates are wood cabinets with plain, simple fronts, often referred to as Shaker style.

3. Wood stain - Wikipedia

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   End grain and bias-cut grain are far more absorbent, thus will accept more pigment and will darken considerably in those areas. The hard ring may absorb differently from the soft ring. The characteristic medullary rays in oak will absorb much less and remain mostly blonde. Woods that have been heavily subjected to paint strippers or washed down ...

4. Graining - Wikipedia

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   The painting is carried out in layers, with the first layer being a base. Today that is usually done with latex paint in a gold or orange or tan tone, depending on the type of wood the artist is aiming to imitat. A second layer of tempera or thinned paint is applied over the dry base, by means of a sponge or large inexpensive brush. During the ...

5. Wood finishing - Wikipedia

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   Yellow warm glow, pops grain 1, darkens with age Low Low Relatively safe once cured, metallic driers are poisonous. Easy. Applied in thin coats with cloth or brush, excess wiped off. Cure time can be long. Difficult. All saturated wood needs to be removed (planing/sanding/scraping) Cures matte Tung oil: Warm glow, pops grain 1, lighter than linseed

6. 118 Satisfying Before And After Restoration Pics That Prove ...

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   The doors are about 130 years old, made from oak and are heritage protected. I am a carpenter and my job was to restore them, rebuild missing parts and treat the surface. I hope I did them justice.

7. Wood grain - Wikipedia

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   Wood grain is the longitudinal arrangement of wood fibers [1] or the pattern resulting from such an arrangement. [2] R. Bruce Hoadley wrote that grain is a "confusingly versatile term" with numerous different uses, including the direction of the wood cells (e.g., straight grain, spiral grain), surface appearance or figure, growth-ring placement (e.g., vertical grain), plane of the cut (e.g ...