I have replaced a piece of old pine with a new piece,does anybody know how to age it so it blends in better.?

Question

I have replaced a piece of old pine with a new piece,does anybody know how to age it so it blends in better.?

Answer 1

i've heared of people aging wood with cold black tea. You soak a cloth or sponge in the tea and sap it on to the wood. Dont know if it works but you could give it a go.

Answer 2

light  tan shoe polish, brushed on & buffed to a nice finish, if this is not dark enough, use dark tan, more than 1 coat may be needed

Answer 3

A french polisher could make the new piece blend in to match the existing.

Answer 4

New pine does not age to that lovely honey colour that you have replaced, instead it goes a sort of gingery orange. To take away the stident colour that you're going to get, I'd suggest using lime wax, but practice on a bit that's relatively hidden first.

Answer 5

I think you can sparay paint it with a matching color and use spary spacle to give it an illusion of build up b4 u sparay paint it. Or you can sand it with a low grit sandpapaer and spary it copper color or gray color depending on the pipe.

Answer 6

A friend used ammonia to darken an oak chair. She made a tent of plastic and placed a bowl of ammonia in with the chair for a while (not sure how long). Better to do it out of the house. Ammonia is a bit dodgy for the lungs.

I don't know if this does anything with pine. It reacts with tannin to change the colour.

Answer 7

You can buy different coloured waxes and they are good.

Answer 8

You will find that if you want a proper, natural job then this works 100%, mask all of the old wood with paper and tape leaving the new wood exposed, then put it out on a couple of sunny days as strong sunlight will age the wood fast,  its only light and age that darken the wood. I did this some years ago but I put the wood out before fitting it, after 2 days it was dark. Good luck.

Answer 9

Fiddle around with wood dyes. I have a good selection of different colours gathered over the years and when I had the floor replaced just got them out and mixed away until I was happy with the result on a spare piece. Mid oak colour is good to mix in. The floor fits in well now.

***I have tried the tea and the bottle for browning gravy!! I didn't find them successful. I eventually threw out the gravy browning chair! I also use a mat varnish on new wood to resemble the sheen of polish. You need three coats sanding inbetween each coat to get that fine gentle sheen. Hope this helps

Answer 10

Some years ago I worked for an antique re-finisher. I spent three years with him and learned a lot.

We replaced everything from pine to curly Maple. To get it to match everything else we used liquid stripper. This is what we did. You will need heavy rubber gloves and some fine steel wool.

Soak the steel wool in the stripper and go over the OLD wood with it. Keep rinsing the steel wool in the stripper. When the stripper is colored enough, 'wash' the new wood with it.

After this point DO NOT use any more new stripper. You want the old color that is in the stripper you're using.

Let it set a minute then go back over the whole object (you never said what the board went on). "Wash" it all down wiping with the grain of the wood.

If you can, set it some where that will allow it to drip or run off.

Let it air dry and go over the whole thing with dry steel wool or a fine sand paper to knock down the ends of the grains that will pop up.

ALWAYS 'WASH' OR SAND IN THE DIRECTION OF THE GRAIN OF THE WOOD.

I hope this works.