When you finish your project wood, congratulations. Now, what kind of surface do you want to, so that not only protect your work for years to come, but also the promotion of their innate beauty? No matter what you choose, you can choose the surface, so that your work is beautiful, as it was carried out unfinished. The choice of the wrong end of your project may appear to be worse than him.

Well, here are some points that must be respected. You must choose a finish such as paint, varnish, shellac or polyurethane; maybe do you need putty, the load of wood, wax or polish. In addition, you must choose from water or a basic solution for the processing of products. What to choose?

There may be confusion, but if you know what you do, you can fairly easily, so it is much easier to choose. Once you know what the properties of each group, you can inform and better decide what you need for your project wood processing.

Start with stains. If you have a stain on wood, adding color on wood, without the grain. It is a fundamental difference between painting colorful or something.

Spot pigment that makes if a pigment is combined with a liquid. Normally, the pigment is itself is a color powder dry before it is with the liquid. The liquid itself contains a binder, using pigments nitrogen to the surface of wood. There is also an air carrier, with the binding. The pigment not dissolve in the binding, but are exposed in the liquid. In the past, you could do color pigment powder, they were, in general, these colors such as yellow, red, coal or wood burned, and were of different types of clay and gravel.

If a stain is a dye stain, “it is physically and chemically unlike a pigment coloration. Dye, such as skin patches of pigment spots done, but the dye stains to solve the carrier rather than being suspended. Given that colour dye dissolves, it may be easy to penetrate deep and the wood surface, unlike a pigment coloration. However, the dye stain particles are very small and slightly translucent. This allows the wood to show, by the dye stain.

A problem with either type of stains or dyes or pigments, is that often, their color is not uniform, particularly on soft wood, like cherry, pine or birch. With this flexible wood, you want a spot a little scrap wood first see whether the differences in colour or blotchiness is a problem. If the stain seems blotch or otherwise non-uniform appear on your essay, you have other options, you can try. For example, you can go to a freeze or a dye stain water-based. Both types of stains do not penetrate the wood and can also easily be a stain color, or even more.