Red oak boards being used as shelves. Was too wet and cold to sand, stain and poly them so my husband put them up unfinished. Well he spilled his beer on one. Will sanding be enough or will the spot rear its ugly head when I get to stain and poly it in the spring?
Try cleaning with oxalic acid before you stain. It will clean the wood and remove anything left.
Paint dept at big box store.
Do you have personal experience using that method?
You realize of course, that when you bleach out the stain with the acid, it won't discriminate between the stained areas and the unstained areas, righ t? So cleaning the area will lighten that one area on the entire on the en tire project. This will be like using full strength Clorox to treat a spot on a black dress shirt.
The original poster should post more info about size and appearance of the stain, what kind of oak it is, and how the stain has been treated to this p oint before expecting an intelligent answer.
It is important to note that the OP never said there was any kind of stain to treat or deal with. For all we know, the beer was spilled and immediate ly wiped off and you can't even tell where the spill was.
Robert
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So what - if anything - is the visible result of the beer being spilled? Beer being almost all water I doubt there is much of anything; possibly, a water stain? If that is all, sanding should ne sufficient. Note: do NOT use oxalic acid (or any other bleach).
Why do you want to stain the wood prior to varnishing?
I have several options to consider.
Oh, I hope it wasn't expensive beer. :-)
Is that not your normal order?
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Wipe *all* of the boards down with beer. Then it won't really matter -- everything will look the same in the end.
That's the best idea yet, but you probably just gave Mike a heart attack by suggesting someone use beer in that manor!
Well, he could always drink it first...
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------------------------------------- Pat & Mike had been friends for many years, but it was getting to be time for Mike to cash in his hand and move along.
As Mike was lying on his death bed, his old friend Pat at his side, he asked Mike, "Mike my old friend, is there anything I can do for you?"
Mike said, "Not in this life, but after I'm gone there is a bottle of Irish in me closet. Would you mind sprinkling it on me grave?"
Pat thought for a minute then asked,
"Would you mind if I run it thru my kidneys first?"
Lew
I try to avoid stain preferring to use wood I like au natural rather than trying to make a wood I don't much care for look like something else. The lack of stain also eases any needed repairs should they become necessary in the future.
Of course there are exceptions, one of them being when overall color is important but the wood itself is not. For example, around here, "merlot" is being championed by many furniture retailers. It is the gotta have color. Why anyone wants their bedroom suite et al to look like wine I do not know but strongly suspect it is for much the same reason that granite, volume ceilings,tray ceilings and crown molding are also "gotta haves" :)
You're right. I'll try not to make that mistake again.
Well, I don't know. We may have accidentally stumbled upon a decent use for Bud lite. :-)
You can be my brother Mike, and he can be my other brother Mike... or is it Darryl and Darryl?
"Anonymous" wrote in message news:7c5e4$52daaf8d$cf3aab60$ snipped-for-privacy@news.flashnewsgroups.com...
Red oak - probably the worst wood you could spill any liquid onto. It has tiny pores that run a long way through the wood along the grain, these pores are hollow and will draw the liquid into the wood. Any hand sanding will never remove the residue and sugars from the spilled beer as they will be too deep in the pores. Power planing may remove enough surface wood to expose unbeered wood. Either replace the shelf or treat the entire board or project to a wash in beer to make it finish evenly. Next time don't use any wood in its unfinished state if you want to eventually finish it.
I thought the suggestion was to wipe down all boards with _beer_. Using a pale straw colored concoction infused with alcohol probably is a poor substitute for using beer.
-BR
"a pale straw colored concoction infused with alcohol"
That's the definition of Bud Lite. :-)
or superblonde shellac...
and wash the spilled beer out. - eventually.
I'd wash the poluted wood with methyl hydrate, flooding the surface, then blotting it dry - several times.
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