A DIFFERENT WAY to use gel stain

Agree with everyone’s comments can’t add another superlative great job
What stripper do you use it works so well ?

Beautiful work, as always. I also preferred the black gel, just a bit. Always fun to see your dad!

Absoluely BEAUIFUL job, Treana. You are an amazing artist and accomplish soooo much wonderful work. Your dad trained you well!!

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The natural beauty in this wood has finally been given its chance to shine. Your way would have been just as beautiful, maybe even more, given your skills and sensibilities. This is truly a beautiful piece on its own, and especially fortunate to have your amazing attention 👏👏👏

"En gustos y colores no han escrito los autores". Ese acabado original del mueble estuvo de moda hace años, al parecer era dar sectores de luz y sombra, sobre una base clara se aplicaba con la pistola de pintar el barniz oscuro en algunas partes dejando formas de luz de acuerdo a la creatividad del pintor, por lo que muchas veces dos muebles no eran idénticamente con los mismos diseños de luz, cosas de la moda. Esto desmerecía como bien dices la calidad de la madera y no se apreciaba como tal, para un mueble de una madera de baja calidad entonces sí le daba realce. Quizá a algún carpintero ideó ese acabado para sacar ventaja. Ese mueble por su construcción, al parecer por todos los detalles, fue hecho por un carpintero con conocimientos de ebanistería, me gustó mucho. También me gustó la toma del paisaje invernal ¡cuánta paz y tranquilidad trasmite!. Saludos y bendiciones estimada Trena y una Feliz Navidad para ti y para toda tu familia.

I would be curious to know what products you are using.

Thanks for another great restoration video Trenna! Many years ago I lived in Regina. One weekend we drove out to the Quappelle Valley and bought a large dresser with a "harp" mirror and 2 small drawers over 2 large drawers, quite a tall piece and painted white. We stripped it down to raw wood thinking it was Pine (those were country pine days) found BIRDSEYE MAPLE!!! Which explained the heavy weight of the dresser. Thank you for sharing your work with us. Happy Holidays to you and your family and to "Shop 🐕 " too!❤

Do you coat the hardware with anything.

Beautiful!

Do you ever make something from scratch for yourself? ❤

I just refinished an old gate leg table that had beautiful turned legs. The top I think was walnut and stripped/sanded back to reveal the most beautiful wood grain obliterated by dark ugly brown stain. The turned legs however were oak and I stripped, sanded, sanded, sanded and even tried soda blasting that old stain out of the grooves. It only was removed after hours of hand sanding. I was afraid if changing the turned leg profile with all that sanding so the client was ok with some dark left there.

The client chose a pretty cherrywood gel stain and it turned out so pretty with all the wood grain showing through! She also wanted an oil finish (Odies Oil) foramatte finish.

I do have a question though; for the first clear coat before using the gel stain as a glaze, did you use lacquer or a poly acrylic or polyurethane?

Thanks Treena, I love these restorations!

The dresser is gorgeous. It would have been in the darker stain also, but I really love the glow that it has in this stain. You know, you could put together lime green and purple and have a piece come out exquisite.
It must be so wonderful to be working with your Dad. My father gave me my love of wood. I lost him 30 years ago and still miss him every day and discuss projects with him.

I would love to know what stripper she uses. I am in awe of her talent

From the burn pile to the bedroom!

Nice work Trena. I enjoy your videos.

I bought the same dresser at a yard sale a couple of years ago and refinished it for my wife. I notice some suttle differences in the way yours and ours were finished. I am sure ours is walnut and elm . when your was stripped and cleaned up , the wood i quite a bit lighter colour than ours. This one has a piece of wood, 1/2 in. X 3/16 in. across between the pillars on each side of the mirror. I am sure our was likely made in Quebec in the late 1890s or right at the turn of century. Both are good looking items.

I seem to remember that type of finish on a lot of 60's/70's furniture from factories. I always felt it was a bit odd looking, but just my opinion. I was surprised to see it was a 1920's piece with that type of finish. Any who and way the final finish the customer chose really highlighted the beauty of the wood. Great job Trena. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family. John here, from the back-roads of Northeastern Tennessee.

Incredibly beautiful. The original finish was odd. It looks so much better.

I am so glad you helped that piece be what it always was underneath that old finish, and that wood is gorgeous! The darker glaze I could understand but to some eyes it's too "gray" so I get why the customer went with the warmer color. The old finish was really distracting from the sweet details and was probably meant to "cover up" the unpopular at the time wood… but the highlights were pretty random. You elevated this piece VERY nicely.