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Forum topic by Rustic posted 67 days ago 269 views 0 times favorited 6 replies Add to Favorites
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Rustic

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67 days ago

Has anyone used food coloring to paint a project or stain? I was thinking of mixing some boiled linseed oil with some food coloring to stain a project. Any thoughts?

-- Rick Kruse, Rick's Rustics Handcrafted wood products Grand Rapids, MI

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Derek Lyons

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66 days ago

IIRC most food grade colors are water based – you might mix a small (Tsp or Tbsp sized) batch first. UV stability might also be an issue.

-- Derek, Bremerton WA --

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SteveKorz

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66 days ago

Here is a quick link to many methods of coloring. What you are looking for is in the “Adding Colorants: Common household colorants” part of this article, about four-five sentences into it, where it talks about food coloring.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

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oldskoolmodder

299 posts in 216 days


66 days ago

I never thought about using Food Coloring to dye woods, and this from someone with a culinary background. I’ve got a few things to try out now. Very informative article Steve, thanks for the link.

-- Respect your shop tools and they will respect you - Ric

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DanM

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65 days ago

I’ve recently used “RIT” fabric dye successfully as wood stain on a couple projects where I wanted “unusual” colors (red, purple & yellow) with the grain also showing. You just mix it with water. Very easy to use, comes in a lot of colors & you can probably mix them for more, and WAY cheaper than the purpose-made colored wood stain powders I’ve seen at places like Rockler. Although the items I’ve dyed have not been around too long at this point, I would expect fabric dye to be more durable than food coloring, in terms of light exposure, etc.

Dan

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trifern

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65 days ago

Nice link, Steve.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

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Rustic

315 posts in 133 days


39 days ago

thanks Steve very helpful

-- Rick Kruse, Rick's Rustics Handcrafted wood products Grand Rapids, MI

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