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What is the best brand wood stain to use on solid oak kitchen cabinets?The most furniture quality finish?
I am putting new doors on solid oak frame kitchen cabinets.The new doors are unfinished solid oak.The frames and sides are about 10 years old, and have been stained once.The current color is a miniwax provincial.I am sanding the frame and preparing it for the new doors.The miniwax cherry stain I have tried so far doesn't give me the color and depth I am looking for.What is the best brand of stain to give a rich furniture grade color and smoothness on the cabinets and where can I buy it?Cost really doesn't matter.I just want a great rich looking finish in a medium cherry tone when finished.
I would not even put MinWax on the bottom of my garbage can. There is a specific reason. The stain has a sealer in it which means that what you see the first time around is about all you are going to see. Contact Mohawk Finishes and see what products that they have.
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I also would not use a varnish to finish it with. Varnish spots with water, like leaving a sweating glass on a table, but lacquer is more immune.
If it were mine, and I have done this, I would finish the cabinets while they are down and instead of attempting to put on varnish with a brush, rent a compressor and a spray gun and learn how to use the spray gun. That way you don't get brush marks, or bristles from the brush, on the cabinets.
Lacquer is thinner than varnish and therefore needs more coats. If you don't have a controlled environment, you might have to use a lacquer retardant to make it dry slower. That will assist in doing away with "blushing." I normally put on 8-10 thin coats and rub it down with steel wool, polishing it with a compound that Mohawk has.
I finish furniture all the time. Lacquer is forgiving, varnish is not. Lacquer is quick drying, perhaps 10-15 minutes per coat, varnish takes hours.
I disagree with the respondent who said that red oak does not take stain easily. I have used many gallons, generally on red oak, and get the results I want. Find the Mohawk dealer in your area and get what help they can provide.
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