I had to make a custom transition to go from the wood flooring into a bathroom. I glued up a couple of pieces of my pre-finished flooring and made the transition. The front edge and the back edge of the transition had to be cut to create the profile I wanted. Thereby leaving raw wood.
The pre-finished wood is 3/4" white oak.
To conceal the cut edges I tried a stain on a scrap piece with two different approaches.
1. Sand (150 grit) the entire piece including the pre-finished area and stain.
2. Just sand & stain the non-finished areas - front and back edges.
The unfinished areas are not as deep a brown and are goldenish when compared to the pre-finished area.
I think the easiest approach is to get a close enough match is to sand & stain only the unfinished areas.
The more involved approach is to mix a darker stain with my base stain. I'm thinking 4:1 base to darker stain ratio. I have some ebony stain on hand from another project.
How would you guys proceed here?
1st pic: Transition b/f stain
2nd pic: Stained scrap transition piece. To the left of the red line, I didn't sand down the pre-finished top edge of the transition. On the right of the red line I sanded off the pre-finish and applied the stain.
3rd pic: The 2 stains I have on hand.
The pre-finished wood is 3/4" white oak.
To conceal the cut edges I tried a stain on a scrap piece with two different approaches.
1. Sand (150 grit) the entire piece including the pre-finished area and stain.
2. Just sand & stain the non-finished areas - front and back edges.
The unfinished areas are not as deep a brown and are goldenish when compared to the pre-finished area.
I think the easiest approach is to get a close enough match is to sand & stain only the unfinished areas.
The more involved approach is to mix a darker stain with my base stain. I'm thinking 4:1 base to darker stain ratio. I have some ebony stain on hand from another project.
How would you guys proceed here?
1st pic: Transition b/f stain
2nd pic: Stained scrap transition piece. To the left of the red line, I didn't sand down the pre-finished top edge of the transition. On the right of the red line I sanded off the pre-finish and applied the stain.
3rd pic: The 2 stains I have on hand.
