Making new wood look old

[Jim1142]

I have made a small chest of pine and would like to make the wood look older than it is. Any suggestions?

[stretch2187]

Distress it. Rough up the edges with a rasp, then sand the splinters off with 120. How much you rough up the edges is up to you. Find a rock that you like and lightly beat the chest with the rock. With pine you do not want to hit it too hard. If you want to stain the cabinet stain it. Then seal the wood and glaze the piece with a glaze that is darker than your stain. Rub off the glaze with 0000 steel wool taking care to leave it in the dents from the rock. Also don't work too hard to get it out of the corners. (Think of a lazy maid dusting the piece for 40 years, leave glaze in the areas where you think she would leave dust.) After you are happy with the way the glaze looks, spray on your final finish. Wiping or brushing on finish will wipe the glaze around.

[Jim1142]

Where do I get this "Glaze"? new to me.

[spartacus]

Sorry about your small chest...(sorry couldn't help it)

In additon to Stretch's suggestion, you can give a 4 yr old a set of car keys and set them loose on it. Serioulsy, did it once, worked well and my nieces had a lot of fun.

[stretch2187]

Glaze is just color applied over a sealer. It can be a regular stain that you bought or you can make your own from pigments you can buy at a paint store. A good one to use is Van Dyke Brown. Mix about a cup of VDB pigment in a half gallon of paint thinner.

[Jim1142]

I did a search on line and found an ammonia fumes process to darken the wood. This is what I had in mind. Thanks for the replies.

[rhull]

>I did a search on line and found an ammonia fumes process to
>darken the wood.

Hm. It's well known that ammonia fuming works to darken oak, ala Gustav Stickly pieces. However, I wasn't aware that ammonia fuming worked for pine. I did a quick search but only found hits for oak, not pine. Perhaps one of the gurus will chime in; no sense in wasting time and money on a process that might not accomplish what you want.

[arcticfox46]

There is a process know as sandblasting that is used in signmaking. I have not tried it yet, but I think it would make wood look old.

I don't think that is what you are looking for, but I think is has an application in woodworking.

[Sonny Edmonds]

Fire, logging chains, and dirt.

Scorch it with a torch.
Then beat it with the chain dragged through the dirt.

Also, you could drag it behind your car/truck/or van for a ways... }>

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[Sonny Edmonds]

That does work, Leo, but leaves bits of the medium embedded into the wood. :P

Better way is to scorch with a torch (like propane type), them wire brush by hand to suit your desired effect.
Try it. Maybe with one of them botched carvings... }> :7

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