I wanted to try a foam stain technique on my latest balsa compsand to add some color. I tried several combos of paints, tinted each epoxy applied with brushes, squegee etc., etc. Finally decided on using colored epoxy, spread on thin with a squegee. I believe it did add a little weight to the overall board construction from additional resin soaking in to the wood. But I think it looks pretty good.
More pics. You can see the finished board in the photo resource section.
If anyone else has done this, I would like to hear your results.
Just did some test myself funnily enough, I wanted to see which would get the most uniform tint over wood, doing it like a foam stain or in the lam.
I ued tint in epoxy resin.
I found the foam/wood stain allows the grain of the wood to show much better but you have to thin the resin and only use a very little to get a uniform colour, too much and it turns patchy.
adding the colout to the lam works well too, but I havent tried this over wood that has first been sealed with clear resin, I suspect it would be pach though.
I also dis a little bit of a swirl in the lam this came out great, but the colours muddied up to fast doing a swirl straight on to the wood.
Hope thats of use.
do a search on kokua’s posts
a couple years back
he explained how he does it…
Wood workers use analine dyes to treat / stain wood a solid color. Ever wonder how they get that black furniture, so black…but you can still see the grain, so you know it’s not paint…or that really cool deep navy blue. Analine is a powder you mix with alchol, comes in all sorts of cool colors. Brush it on and let it dry. no raising of the grain.
Thanks for the tip resinhead, I’ll def look in to that.