7 Ways to Make New Wood Look Old + The Great Oxidation Experiment
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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Oxidation is the natural process that wood undergoes as it ages. Over time, the exposure to oxygen and UV light from the sun cause a board to either lighten or darken - depending on the wood species. Repeated changes in moisture and exposure to elements like wind and rain can also accelerate the aging of wood. You probably see aged wood every day when you see an old cedar fence which may have an almost ebony tone to it.
And although the wood’s surface is punished in the process, an aged barn door or weathered beam has a certain appeal to it. Obtaining a “vintage” look in a project is something to which many DIYer’s aspire, but getting wood with an already rustic look can be difficult and expensive. To get around the hassle of finding the right wood, you could just create it with a simple homemade wood aging solution.
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If you're looking for step-by-step instructions and high-resolution photos of the different wood type, head over to the blog: gadgetsandgrain.com/2019/08/02/how-to-oxidize-age-wood-in-a-matter-of-minutes/ Thanks for watching and keep all the great questions coming!
And the reason you washed the steel wool with dish detergent?
This is the closest to empirical research on the subject I've found on RUclips. Great job and thanks for investing so much of your time for our benefit :-)
Hey man thanks for doing this. It took a lot of time and effort to make this video. This answered alot of questions.
+100 !! I'm planning a bookcase and cabinets, and they need to match some genuine antique pieces. You saved me a couple days of doing test boards!
Another tip (which is great for multi-tasking) is to clean your coffee maker with white vinegar and instead of discarding that hot vinegar down the drain, pour some into a jar with the steel wool to make the stain. While it isn't boiling, it's still nice and hot. And who cares if the water is a little dingy-looking from old coffee-it helps with the color!
Just don't forget to finishing cleaning your coffee maker by running through a few pots of clean water! Otherwise your next pot of coffee will taste nasty!!
Great idea. TX
Most epic stain test I’ve seen to date. Thank you so much for sharing all your hard work with us. You got yourself a new subscriber.
I know it's been 3 years since you posted this video and what to do with the wood squares is no longer an issue but in case you find yourself in a similar situation again something you can do with them is varnish them and use them as cup coasters.
At 10 minute 30 seconds is an EXTREMELY important tip prior to mixing steel wool and vinegar. Years ago I mixed (before I found enough info on the reaction) I made the error of putting the mix in an old Glass wine bottle and closed the top TOO tightly. The resulting gas built up for several days. As I had stored it in the garage by my wife’s car it had remained out of hearing range. When I entered the garage several days later I found shattered green glass Everywhere. Embedded in the wood of workbench.... all over the floor...... dents on my wife’s car. Let’s just say that an Explosive device was unintentionally created. And the flying shards of shattered glass made great shrapnel. Thankfully no one was actually in the garage when it popped. Loosely SEALED ...... very important!!!!!
Lesson learned the sorta hard way
LOL! Sorry...I know it was traumatic, but thanks for the warning :D
I watched your video on aging wood today and it was just what I was looking for. I started messing around with it today and I'm impressed. Thank you for the knowledge Bro.
Love this vid! Just can’t get enough of chemistry in wood finishing / aging / antiquing…..been doing it for 50 years. Luckily, I’ve moved beyond my “poor newbie” stage and don’t have to use straight lye to strip oak anymore….man, that was all I had - So I used it WILDLY and lived to tell the tale. Great add to use tannins to add color, too! ❤️
I'm very new to wood staining/painting and this has been the most informative video I've seen using some everyday products. Thank you!
Great video! I boiled the vinegar as suggested and then filtered the solution with coffee filters so that I could spray it on a new pine 6'x8' fence panel. The new fence panel immediately looked much closer to the rest of the old fence. BTW I used #3 (coarse) steel wool that I had on hand and it worked fine.
Good Grief! This is a historic video -- can't thank you enough! A MUST-WATCH for anyone exploring how to finish the wood in their projects. So informative and well researched. People who share their knowledge like this are a benefit to us all, and I'm more than happy to support your efforts -- I subscribed, and I'll be using your links for any products I need to buy.
Thank you buddy. Appreciate that.
What an amazing treasure trove of useful information! Thank you so much for going through all this work so we don’t have to. Your effort is very much appreciated!!
I've watched many of these vinegar and steel wool videos. I did not wash my steel wool or boil my vinegar and my solution did not change one bit.
My steel wool was older but not open. My vinegar was new. I will try washing my steel and heat my vinegar. I would enjoy any comments from
others. Thanks for your test.
This is honestly the best DIY video I have ever seen. Well done!
Loved your video, I am new to staining and this was very informative. Thank you, looks like a lot of work went into putting this together! Loved the music too!
I subscribed because of the thoroughness of the testing - very complete and informative. Thank you.
Nicely done Jeremy, this must have been a lot of work which saved a lot of time for all of us. Thank you.
This was EXTREMELY helpful!! Best presentation out there!! Showing all of the variations of stain types and protective coatings on each type of wood helped me see what treatment I would ultimately like to do to get the color and look I am going for with my wood type. Thank you, thank you!
Best tutorial on this subject I have seen. I have used the steel wool and white vinegar process in the past and loved that outcome. Thanks for this video.
Glad it was helpful!
The sharpie on the wood as an intro slide into the next segments 👌
This us THE vidéo I've been looking for for months !!! Thanks U for the time spent, it's gonna be si usefull !
Excellent video. RUclips recommended it to me after a search a few days ago, and I'm glad to have found it. Thank you.
This is a REALLY superior analysis how various woods respond to commercial stains and home-created stains. VERY thorough and professional. I am a grateful observer (soon to be USER).
Thank you very much ..... edward / chicago
I liked the effect of the weathered wood accelerator and the apple cider vinegar steel wool combinations on maple wood the best. the marine varnish was a wonderful surprising finish as well!
The ultimate wood aging guide! kudos for including metric measurements, as well :)
great video . . . less talking, more doing . . and reviewing so many of the variables (types of wood, stain options, finishes, etc) . . . fantastic job, thank you !
Thank you! The most comprehensive video I've seen on this subject. Kudos.
This was by far the most informative video I’ve watched!! Thanks!!!
omg. Finally someone who understands variables
Thanks for all your time and effort in making a really clear and informative video - great job - will save hours of trial and error.
Really well structured experiment, love it! Thanks for all the great work:)
hardwoods used at around 11:00; EXCELLENT comparisons and you saved me an amazing amount of trial and error. Mahalo from Hawaii:)
This is the best video out there on this subject, great job!
One of the best videos I’ve seen on this topic. Very informative - thank you!
Put a steel wool in a vinegar this morning. Because of your detailed video I am going to boil some vinegar now. Can’t wait days because all your experiments makes me want to experiment now.
Let me know how it turns out!
Thanks for a great video G&G. I use wood burning a lot in my own videos, but I will certanly apply the vinegar solution to my works also.
What a very fantastic video!!! You can randomly glue all those squares onto a board with a frame around it use as a beautiful wall hanging. Thanks
thank u 🙏..makes our staining experiments easier now that we have all end results to choose on..much faster for newbie like me..
You are welcome 😊
Thank you so, so much for all the work you did to make this video. You did an excellent job and didn't miss any details. All my questions were answered and I'm ready to get to work.
Wow! That is so thorough. Great job and results. I wanted to try steel-wool-vinigar for a while and this is by far best video I've seen. Kuddos!
I make small antique looking art pieces using plywood and these techniques will be very useful. Thanks for doing all the research so I don't have to. Much appreciated. 🙂
thank you so much for ALL that info :) we will be creating a barn wood beam for our kitchen and your awesome video shows so many choices!
Good, comprehensive video. Many other vinegar/steel wool doesn’t many the wood type, which is obviously the main point. I tried vinegar/steel wool on white pine, but didn’t get the desired GREY look, so after all just spent the money on the aged look accelerator. Thx Jerermy 👍
Also the length of “steeping” of the steel wool as you say towards the end. I would definitely do longer than an hour but the boiling tip is great! Thanks
WOW! you spent an enormous amount of time on this video. Thanks!
this was awesome!, best presentation on this topic on all of youtube. would really love to see you add results for cedar wood plank as well please!
Best video on this subject thank you! I'm going to use the vinegar steel wool solution on a red oak desk that I am refinishing.
Hot damn, this has got to be the most informative video on RUclips. I’m subscribing to you based solely on this. Thank you! Must’ve taken a heck of a long time to create this content.
For the cold solution (unheated vinegar) you can completely dissolve the steel wool within a week or two which gives a much stronger stain. I've done this a few times to great success. Just plan ahead.
Really appreciate your sincere and organized efforts, thank you
Great presentation 👍 I'm glad I came across your site.
If you let the steel wool and vinegar mix sit longer you will get deeper tones. I let mine sit for 2 days and added black tea bags directly to the mixture. If I dilute it back I can achieve grey, if I leave it full strength I get a nice brown. This was on yellow pine sanded with 80 grit and left out in the sun to cure...Another option if you want to control the darkness is use a heat gun and lightly heat the stain until your desired color and then seal soon after.
Nice tips. Thanks!
Oh my goodness! I cannot believe how much work you did here. Wow. You happened not to use any cedar -- the wood used for the (bought, unfinished) garden bench I'd like to age, but I really learned a lot. Thank you so much.
Yeah the obvious point of boiling the vinegar ( which i didn't think of before ) but is a great accelerant for the reaction so you don't have to wait days for it, also for the great tip about washing the steel wool to get the soap out beforehand which is obvious now i see that step but was going to throw it in unwashed ( and probably just get a gooey mess lol ) thanks for showing these stages in the finer detail that most other videos on home made stain seem to miss ....
You've been a huge help in deciding what our little yellow pine powder room vanity will look like. Many thanks! I know I can do this now.
Best and most helpful video. Thank you so much for creating this.
I may never buy stain again! Outstanding video!
Very good demo. I hope I can get out sooner out of this quarantine so I can buy the needed chemicals. Thanks for the tutorial. I've watched the first version too.
Great video! Effort will pay off. You've got a new subscriber.
Whow, thank’s a lot for this great video. It was just what I was looking for. Due to your detailed information my new DIY „old looking shabby chic/vintage“ toilett flor turned out fantastic. It does actually look like i have hade made it with wood from an old wheatered barn. Your video made me happy J
What a video! The time and effort you put into this had to be enormous. I would find someone who wants to glue them together and use them in a lathe project or even someone that makes wooden rings?
Nice work, great experiment and results with control groups and variables! Use those square blocks as tiles to make a collage coffee table, covered with epoxy!
Wow, this is so informative! You took so much time to plan out and execute this video, instantly subscribed!
Thank youuu😊
Thanks for putting this video together, gave me some ideas of what I want to do.
You're brilliant. Thank you so much for this comprehensive breakdown. So freaking helpful. I need to create contrast on a staircase to match a vinyl floor product, and this is helping me so much.
Thank you so much for doing this and for being so thorough!! I’ll be installing new ceiling soon and one option I’ve been considering is a shiplap style. I already knew about aging wood in this manner, but I love how you have it all laid out. I love having a good idea about what the result will be depending on the method and wood ❤️❤️❤️
I wonder how they would look with a whitewash over the top. Ive been considering a whitewash, but I don’t like how a thin coat still has a hint of the yellow wood underneath. I guess I get to start experimenting now 😊
Stick all the squares together for a backdrop/wall art or make into bench top. Good work, thank you
Wow! Very complete and scientific! Thank you
Great Video !!! Cannot emphasize enough. Top Shelf
Thanks for a thorough video on this steel/vinegar method. Maybe use the wood blocks as clay pigeons?
You mean wood pigeons? 😀
GREAT info. Thnx for spending the time showcase this.
Great video, thorough and informative.
Excellent presentation on a confusing subject! 13:19
Very very helpful! Perhaps you could make sort of a beaded curtain type decor piece with the wood. String pieces together with space in between, attach several such strings to a top piece of wood. Could be cool patio decor. Might also have a wind-chime effect? I'm not sure.
Fantastic video thanks. i have an oak table dining table that I would like to try this on and give it a restoration hardware look. Thanks!
Cool! Shoot me some photos on the final project.
I have no idea what kind of wood this is that I’m working with 😅 kinda just gonna have to see what happens. This helped so much though. Thank you!
Hands down best video regarding this topic. 💯
Thanks so much!
@@GadgetsandGrain Truly, this video is saving my project!
wow i LOVE this, you are SO methodical! fantastic experiement, thank you!!!
I think you should use your 500 wood pieces to publish this, it would be a great reference tool!
Thank you Jeremy I was wondering where I was going to get an aged barn type plank of wood and this worked wonderful. You’re awesome !liked and subscribed
Thanks for that great video and time you spend on to make it.
Thanks allot again 👍
Wow, that was really informative and easy to follow. Thank you for making it easier to understand the process.
Thank you so much for all this work. Best video on the subject I found
Wow. Appreciate all your effort to show us the amazing effects. My heart leans for Steel Wool & Vinegar everytime tho.lol
Superb video. Really great presentation. Thanks so much for sharing your experience and knowledge.
Top technique - works a treat. Wife wanted pine to look old and worn. I used the tea, wire wool & vinegar method. The vinegar and WW initially looked far too red and I thought I'd done a wrong-un, but then old tea diluted 50/50 with some clean water worked an absolute treat. But... a week on and the kitchen still smells of bloody vinegar. I'm sure it'll eventually fade?
Fantastic, thank you so much for this. Brilliant. Your first version was too, but this one is so much more in-depth. Really nice work. I liked that Aged Wood Accelerator product, too! I've never seen one before, but it looks brilliant.
Thanks so much for the kind words, Josh. Really appreciate that.
Excellent info! I`m going to try your way and make one using green hunter pigment insted coffee or tee, the same pigment parents use to make Tie Dye shirts for the kids. Thank you for your time. You got yourself a new subscriber too.
Superb presentation. Very thoughtful. I liked the music.
You put in so much work on this! Thank you for doing this. Liked and subed.
Awesome experiments! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you thank you thank you! I neither have the time or expenditure to do large experiments like this. I'm also tired of watching DIYers with no real taste produce crap that only looks good from real far away so they won't show you clear close-ups of the end product. Thank you
Great video! I'm moving to pine for my guitar building as traditional wood like ash is getting hard to find in decent quality (expensive too). I'm also looking for a niche like aged wood, rather than the traditional pine finishes. Thanks for the video!
This is the most amazing video!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!
First time here...had to subscribe after the first 30 seconds.
Very useful thank you very much for sharing your video
Thank you for watching!
Great video. Thorough, solid method, and extremely valuable. Definitely will influence a project I have in the queue.
Appreciate the effort - make a piece of art w/ the blocks in a random pattern to hang.
Awesome! Thx for testing on Doug Fir 🌲
Brilliant comprehensive instructions. You have saved me hours of time and also saved me wasting a load of cash on woodstains that won't achieve the desired effect. Top job!