Secrets of Professional Wood Finishing Revealed!

Trying to decide what finish to apply to your wood project can be agony for some woodworkers, there are many, many kinds of varnishes, Polyurethanes, paints, oil finishes and more that one can choose from depending on whether you want a glossy look, satin or even a matte or dull look, some wood finishes are harder to work with while others are easy, and then there are the wood stains or aniline dyes that you might want to add to give your project some color or match it to other furniture someone may have, so many variables, where does one start, well ... by having some idea what the more popular products contain and how they work and what is involved in using them, do you spray them on, brush them on or can you use a clean cloth to apply them all these are answers you need to ask yourself when thinking of what finish you want to apply to your woodworking projects. In this video, we'll look at professional wood finishes like Rubio Monocoat, Osmo Polyx Oil, hard wax oil, Watco and many other wood finishes.

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[LarryB-inFL]

Dyes are a helluva subject. I bought a Keda powder dye kit with the intent of using it to see if I could dye some wood purple. Well, it turns out that figuring out color mixtures is NOT intuitive AND the dyes are incredibly difficult to work with in terms of mess and staining stuff (eg, I never got the color I wanted, BTW.

[FormerlyKnownAsAndrew]

Ive been slapping everything with walnut danish oil.

[kyleolson]

I recommend reading the Bob Flexner book "Understanding Wood Finishing" if you want to know finishes. It breaks many of the myths that still exist about finishes. For example, we can know what's in these finishes. Most of the information about what's in the products is published for chemical industry people but not woodworkers.

[michellegatz]

I read an article on black dye and they used India black ink and that is the best, pure black can’t see the difference between ebony and the dye. One application is enough

[TheMessyStudio]

Colin, for ebonizing, I actually use Speedball Super Black India Ink. It works very well.

[alandesgrange]

The best product I've found to ebonize wood is black ink. A big bottle is sold by office supply places, and is inexpensive. The Speedball brand of India ink what I have used. It dries really fast and looks great.

[BlackOWLfly]

Just a trick for mixing those finishing products in a can:
instead of just using a stick or wood leftover I prefer an old hand mixer which would be too weak for kitchen duty. Instead of throwing it away, re-use it to mix those wood finishers and then immediately clean the excess from the metal parts of the mixer. This would make a very well mixed product in a matter of seconds.

[djlalorocks]

Can you expand on the Varnish you use for your own mix?

[xof-woodworkinghobbyist]

For a very dark and beautiful black, I use India ink. Very easy to apply and finish.

Great job!

[mrvincefox]

12:26 "because we purchase the Shit"

[Goalsplus]

Can you help me out, I'm regularly confused by the term, "varnish." What exactly did you add to the Danish oil? In addition, I also hear polyurethane referred to but rarely is it stated as water or oil based. I guess it's assumed to be oil based most of the time but with all the advances in water based products maybe that's wrong.

[MCsCreations]

Excellent video, Colin! Thanks a bunch! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[ot]

Suzy, Jonny, Michael, Georgi(Yorgos), being civilized kept sending cools tips, all others shut up and stayed in check. They had never seen wood before.

[johnhill]

Putting black over blue (or mixing blue with black) does create a darker black. In Pantone color chart, it is called "process black".

[tommcdonald]

What finish would you use on a new workbench. One has Baltic birch plywood, and the other has southern yellow pine. Again, both are new.

[thebrelon]

By the look of all the finishes you showed and seeing they're all in dual language English/french I was wondering if you're from Canada?

[garethlewis]

What a wealth of information. Thank you very much. I will experiment.

[henrysara]

Thank you, Colin. Great walk-through Wood Finish options.

[thorritz]

Nice quick tutorial on wood finishes. Like how u broken the different types down to 3 groups and how u explained them. I've basically just been using "tung oil" and a wax finish but now want to experiment a bit more after seeing this video

[PMichaels]

Great video, Colin! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.