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Aging Wood with Household Items

Aging Wood Weathering Wood How to Distress Wood DIY Wood Stain Black Tea wood Baking Soda wood Steel Wool and Vinegar wood FREE WOODWORKING PLANS: www.WhosTheVoss.com Black tea contains tannins, which are natural compounds that can react with wood to create a warm, golden color. Different brands and blends of tea can produce varying colors and densities, so it's recommended to experiment on sample boards first. Simply brew a few tea bags in one or two cups of water, allow it to steep for about an hour. And apply it with a foam brush while it’s still warm. Some woods it effects immediately, others it takes a few hours. The tannins in tea can also be used to enhance the effect of other staining methods, such as using steel wool and vinegar. While black tea can add tannins to enhance the colors, baking soda, and this steel wool mixtures react with the tannins themselves, to grey and weather the material. Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is a base, and when it reacts with certain acids naturally present in wood. it can cause a chemical reaction that alters the wood's color. This reaction often results in a darkening or aging effect, especially noticeable on certain types of wood like oak, cherry, and mahogany, which have a lot of (wait) yes, Tannins. For this mixture, we are combining 1 Tablespoon of baking soda to 1 cup of warm water. Much like the tea, your concentration will affect your outcome. Again, foam brushing it on, allowing it to completely dry. When steel wool is soaked in vinegar, the iron in the steel wool reacts with the acetic acid in the vinegar, forming an iron acetate solution. When the iron acetate solution comes into contact with wood containing tannins, the iron reacts with the tannins to form iron-tannate complexes. These complexes are dark-colored, resulting in a grey or black stain. I used four pads of super fine (0000) steel wool. I washed the steel wool with dish soap and rinsed with water to remove any oil coating. The steel wool pads were torn to pieces, put into a glass container, and submerged in vinegar. To keep the steel wool below the liquid level I weighed it down with a couple of rocks. You don't want the steel wool above the liquid level as that would produce rust and contaminate the iron acetate. The container was covered with a bit of old towel to allow the produced gas to escape; be sure to do that! Then set the container aside for a few days, checking and stirring it occasionally. After a few days to a week some of the steel wool has dissolved and the container/liquid looks nasty. I strained the solution through a piece of t-shirt fabric. Surprisingly, the solution is clear. A word of caution: The iron acetate solution stains everything, including your fingers and your clothes, so wear gloves and an old t-shirt. You also want be careful in your shop Brush the solution onto your material using a foam brush I also have a weathering stain from minmax, designed to do react with those tannins much like all our other trials. I’m applying it to the last section of bare wood.