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I saw on one of the changing rooms shows from overseas a simple way of staining MDF to get awoodgrain effect. They used a tool of some sort and dragged it over the stain at different angles to achieve the effect .Does anybody know what it is and where to get one.
thanks
Should be a law against these shows. Don't watch them.
It was probably a graining tool. Usually available at most good paint or hardware shops. I have never seen it used with stain over MDF but there is no reason why it wouldn't work. I would be surprised if there wasn't something sealing the MDF first though as most stains would soak in before you could work the tool over it, especially on a surface of any size. Graining is usually done with paint not stain and usually over a light coloured base coat of paint.
Hope this helps.
Cheers - Neil.:)
Thanks Neil SEE WHAT i CAN FIND AND TRY
mouldy
See if you can find a book on graining & texturing.
Or ask a post war pomy painter & decorator. ( you can't get the wood you know)
"Uncle harold" (no relation) did a bedroom suite for my mum years ago He called it antiquing.
More a painting process than a staining thing.
Starting to come back in vogue in a fashion.
The method can produce allsorts of timberlike and stone like effects.