longcruise
70 Cal.
Any thoughts on adding color to Tru Oil. I'm thinking getting it to a reddish brown.
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Color to Tru Oil?
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It can be tinted with Mixol or Transtint.
What are you trying to achieve?
What are you trying to achieve?
Agree with @Flintandsteel because I've done it with Minwax "Tung Oil Finish" to "cheat" a finish stain color one way or another, and TruOil is a similar product, so it should work just fine. Although TransTint is billed as "water-based", it has some component in it that enables it to be mixed into an "oil-based" product to a certain degree.
A note of caution: one drop of TransTint goes a long way and is enough to effect a considerable color change in your finishing product, so give yourself some practice mixing it first. Another caution: it gets into everything and goes everywhere, so be cautious about how and where you use it.
A note of caution: one drop of TransTint goes a long way and is enough to effect a considerable color change in your finishing product, so give yourself some practice mixing it first. Another caution: it gets into everything and goes everywhere, so be cautious about how and where you use it.
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A tint in the finish won’t change the color of the wood. Just the color of the fin on top of the wood.
Correct. Sorry if I was misunderstood.
By "cheating" it I just meant that if he wanted the color resulting from the staining process to be a little redder, he could do it by adding red tint to the clear finish.
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