This is especially true if you will be installing hardwood and you have a desire to sand it and change the color more than.
What kind of hardwood doesnt take stain well.
It s not just the type of hardwood that matters.
However applying multiple coats of stain isn t always the best way to achieve a deeper color.
This makes it difficult to make significant changes to its natural color.
It also depends on the grain.
Well the first question is what is the wood species.
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This wood is a hardwood and has many uses in woodworking.
In most instances additional staining is not necessary.
A small example but there are thousands of wood species with different c.
So we can say cherry doesn t take stain well.
Douglas fir is moderately strong and hard for a softwood rating 4 on a scale of 1 to 4.
2 light 2 medium and 2 dark.
Then stain the entire board.
Let it dry and add a second layer of stain to all but one section.
To be honest with you for some reason the plywood doesn t seem to take the stain very well at all and i am not sure that i can get them as dark as the existing kitchen cabinets with the stain i am using.
Tight grains won t take the stain as well as other grains.
For one thing it ll take a long time to finish the project.
Hardwood plywood is always of a high grade and it is relatively easy to stain and finish.
However it is much more expensive and sometimes defeats the purpose of using plywood as the wood of choice.
This hardwood is noted for its dark rich colors and its high levels of natural oils.
Some woods simply don t take stain as well as others.
I was hoping for some way to get the plywood to absorb the stain better rather than limiting how the rest of the wood absorbs it.
Repeat this process until you get to the desired color depth.
To find quality hardwood ply in a variety of different species you typically need to go to a specialty lumber yard.
Maple is very finicky with absorbing stain oak takes it very well.