What stain to use?

[goodfella]

Last year my daughter moved to Phoenix and we purchased a used table and chair set. When the dealer delivered the table, he used a stain? oil? finish on minor dings on the chair legs and covered the dings by blending them in with the good finish.It blended together very welll. Last week I was moving my father-in-laws hope chest and set the chest on it's side. We tipped it over and broke one of the legs. The chest is about 60 or 70 years old. I used Gorilla glue and got it glued back together again. I trimmed and sanded the glue off of the leg and now need to refinish the leg. I would like your ideas on what to use to refinish the leg so the glue joints are a reasonable match with the rest of the leg. I was hoping you might have an idea of what the furniture dealer used to cover up the dings on the chairs.

Thanks

[Lee Michaels]

"goodfella" wrote

Why don't you give him a call and ask him. You can always say that you dinged up the chairs and need to do some more repairs.

[Edwin Pawlowski]

No clue what the dealer used, but I've had good luck just using an oil stain close in color. From a few feet away, small dings are invisible.

[goodfella]

I found out it was Howards Oil. I went ahead and used stain I found at Menards for a quarter a packet. 4 were just enough to cover it.

Thanks for the input