Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel as a wood stain
Greetings, The only wood preservative I have found to be worth the trouble is raw linseed oil, applied by the old rule of: once a day for a week, once a week for a month, once a month for a year, once a year for life. With this, wood will stand up to Texas, sun, termites and all. If biodiesel can do a better job with less applications, I would be a very happy camper. May I suggest coating a piece of wood and setting it on a termite pile? To me, that would be a good test of it. Bright Blessings, Kim At 07:53 PM 12/1/2005, you wrote: Hello all, I just did some testing of biodiesel as a wood stain. I used oak as the base wood and applied a coat of Bio. The color was as pretty as can be if you like natural wood with out shadowing enhancements deep in the pore structure. It is a deep penetrator as compared to other stains. The best part is it was dry in equal time and it was coatable with a high grade polyurethane topcoat. I think one could add pigments if you wanted enhanced colors and the solvent based stain pigments will mix readily with the BD. Be sure to go to the trouble of washing it out close to neutral Ph before use as a wood stain. I do wonder if you were to use ths as a preservative if it wouldn't be better to actualy leave it as basic as possible? any thoughts? ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Biodiesel as a wood stain
Hello all, I just did some testing of biodiesel as a wood stain. I used oak as the base wood and applied a coat of Bio. The color was as pretty as can be if you like natural wood with out shadowing enhancements deep in the pore structure. It is a deep penetrator as compared to other stains. The best part is it was dry in equal time and it was coatable with a high grade polyurethane topcoat. I think one could add pigments if you wanted enhanced colors and the solvent based stain pigments will mix readily with the BD. Be sure to go to the trouble of washing it out close to neutral Ph before use as a wood stain. I do wonder if you were to use ths as a preservative if it wouldn't be better to actualy leave it as basic as possible? any thoughts? ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel as a wood stain
Hm. I've heard of people down in Ecuador perserving bamboo by painting it with diesel -- which we all recoiled at due to the nastyness of it. Using biodiesel sounds better -- I wonder how it will stand up, considering biodiesel is biodegradable? But then again so is tallow, beeswax, etc, and they make good shoe conditioner and wood polish and such, so just because it's biodegradable doesn't mean it won't hold up. Keep up informed. Zeke On 12/1/05, JJJN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I just did some testing of biodiesel as a wood stain. I used oak as the base wood and applied a coat of Bio. The color was as pretty as can be if you like natural wood with out shadowing enhancements deep in the pore structure. It is a deep penetrator as compared to other stains. The best part is it was dry in equal time and it was coatable with a high grade polyurethane topcoat. I think one could add pigments if you wanted enhanced colors and the solvent based stain pigments will mix readily with the BD. Be sure to go to the trouble of washing it out close to neutral Ph before use as a wood stain. I do wonder if you were to use ths as a preservative if it wouldn't be better to actualy leave it as basic as possible? any thoughts? ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
