How To Use Gel Stain To Refinish Furniture In One Coat!
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- This is the easiest way to refinish reclaimed and bare wood furniture. Gel stain is so forgiving and easy to use. Help support our family and channel! Shop Amazon through this link: www.amazon.com/shop/countryli.... We show you the DIY step by step method for refinishing your found treasures.
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Great video!!! I stained all my kitchen cupboards in our farmhouse kitchen and they turned out beautiful.
Thank you Lynda. We will be updating our kitchen with some gel stain soon.
Thanks so much for the tutorial! I plan to use this process on a kitchen table top. This was very helpful!
You’re welcome. Let me know if you have any questions.
Great transformation!!! I love working with gel stain!!! Subscribed!
Thank you. Glad to have you here.
Very informative, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I would have liked to see the finished product!
Great video!! Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome
Great instruction. This is the first gel stain video I've seen. I hoped at the end you would show a good before & after shot to see the true difference. I'm anxious to do this !
Glad it was helpful!
Thank so much I wanted to do my stairs rail with jell stain, from oak to black or espresso!
You're welcome
It would have been really nice if you had a sample piece of wood to show the dry brush technique as well as a sample with stain rubbed off. But thanks for the info and demonstration. Helpful!
HI there! We just moved into a home two months ago, and I'm getting ready to gel stain the existing oak colored trim (pine, I think) around my bay window to a dark walnut. There are some cracks in the wood and parts where it appears very worn, and possibly bare. I'm going to use wood filler to fill the cracks. I'm wondering if I need to worry that the very worn areas or the wood filler will take the gel stain differently than the rest of the wood. Should I use a wood conditioner prior to staining? Thanks!!
I have never used a gel stain over a filler so I cannot say. Try using the filler on a scrap board and gel stain it to test.
Will tack cloth leave a waxy residue? I usually keep the mineral spirit as the last cleaning step. Any suggestion?
Tack cloth does not leave a residue at all.
@@CountryLivingExperience that will make my life a lot easier! I always thought they will leave some waxy stuff
Just finished using the Varathane Gel Stain (Early American) to refinish our sons pine bedroom suite, which had a light oak / stain / varnish. It looks awesome, but after 20Hrs drying tie, the finish remains tacky?I followed the instructions on the video and even did a bit more sanding of the wood than noted I the video. Hoping you have some guidance.
Interesting. I have never used the Varathane brand. Humidity will certainly affect dry time and the 20hrs may just not be enough.
Hi - I just checked the can of General Finish gel stain I bought - it is oil based. Will the method you show in your video work with oil gel stain? Or do I need to use the water based gel stain? Thanks for your help.
We use the water based stain because it is easier to clean up. You can use this method with oil based but it just requires mineral spirits to clean everything up.
see you next tuesday! :)
Sounds good. We actually changed to Sundays and Thursdays. See you then.
I love the way the bedroom set came out but I will like to asked a question can u use oil based gel stain as well
Thank you. Yes, you can use an oil based gel but in my opinion water based is much easier to use.
@@CountryLivingExperience isn't general finishes oil based?
Do you have an instructional video for doing topcoat?
Sorry, I don't have one yet.
Hi in your comments you say you use water based. Where can you buy it? When I click on Amazon link it brings up only oil based products
I think I misspoke. General finishes gel stain is oil based but you can put a water based poly sealant over the top of it.
Hello, we try gel stain and so far is not drying, any ideas on how we can solve this? Thank you
It should dry fairly fast. Did you put it on too thick? Do you live in a very humid environment?
Is the oil based gel stain sticky after 24 hours???? Mine is. I put on 1 coat and wiped off with Tack cloth 10 minutes after applying.
Yes, it can stay sticky for several days if you live in an area with high humidity.
But what do I do if I want it really dark? Thanks!
You can do two coats.
Hi what do you recommend for a top coat?
Sure. I like using any water based poly. Minwax Polycrilic is great.
@@CountryLivingExperience what if u dont put a top coat? why is it needed?
@@BillSW You don't need to. It is a protective layer against wear, moisture, etc.
What color did you use?
We used the Java colored gel stain.
What top coat can i use? Any suggestions??
I use a Polycrylic like this one....amzn.to/2XxvN0G. I like it because it is water based and easy to clean up. It also gives a nice rock solid finish.
@@CountryLivingExperience so a water based top coat works over an oil based gel finish? I've only ever used water based over water based, wouldn't water over oil not adhere?
@@TheDingfish No. General Finishes has water based gel as well.
@@CountryLivingExperience oh do you have a link to that? Can't seem to find it, only the oil based ones come up, the water based ones look like normal stains and not gel?
@@CountryLivingExperience ok I feel silly now, just looked up the water based stains on the gf website, had NO IDEA they are just the water based version of gel stains, able to go over existing finishes, do other brands have such lines as well? All this time I thought only gel stains could do that
I stained my kitchen cabinets the night before yesterday. This morning still I find the stain residue to come off on touch.. Its been almost 36 hrs now.. Should i wait longer begore applying the top coat?
It should dry much faster than that even in a bit higher humidity. I suspect the gel stain is either too old or was not mixed properly. Try wiping off the doors with a dry cloth and then retest to see if the pigment is holding on to the wood. Did you lightly sand it before you applied the gel?
Is Java a dark brown?
Java
I wanted to see the finished piece.
I showed it 20 seconds into the video.
The gel stain did not dry for 4 days with this method. The ridges did not settle either as you said. There are many variables I guess.
That is incredibly strange. Maybe your area had extremely high humidity.
Can you gel stain over a gel stain you don't like the color
I have not done it before but I believe you can.
I never tried it I have a bedroom set that I also want it to be black I but they send me a gallon of oil based gel stain
I would return the product if they sent the wrong one.
I wish you had a pice already dyed to show how dark the wood is when you leave the stain on it without whipping it off 😒
I didn’t really while it off. That is as dark as it gets.
It shows in the first few seconds of the video.
A bit confused....every other "how to" video I've seen says to wipe it off immediately and not to start in the middle of the wood. I see that you are starting in the middle and I haven't seen you wipe it off.
There are different techniques depending on the look that you want. I didn't wipe it off because I wanted a very dark look. Starting in the middle does not matter if you keep the leading edge wet.
Thank you for responding so promptly. I'm in a bit of a quandary.....I sanded and applied stain to a chair for a friend. I've never had anything like this happen before. The stain is so blotchy, it looks horrid. I'm in the midst of sanding it down. Not all the stain comes out. It's still very blotchy. Do you think that gel will cover up the uneven finish? I really don't know what to do besides paint it. The back of the chair is a veneer pattern and painting it will cover that up. Got ideas? I'll take them.
Jean
@@jeanglover219 It should cover it up if you put multiple coats of a darker gel stain. Only other option is to sand excessively.
@@CountryLivingExperience
Thank you.
I have been sanding as well as I can. Still blotchy look. Im hoping this gel stain will work.
Thank you again
You're welcome
Very surprised to see that you didn't wipe any stain off after applying. Also, couldn't get a good look at the drawers as you were closing the video but from what I saw I was not impressed.
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Did you wipe it after 20 mintues?
No, because I wanted the darker look.
Very informative, thank you!