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tuna55 MegaDork
10/4/17 9:22 a.m.

I am helping a friend with a headboard which was damaged where the rail connects. I fixed it by replacing some large pieces with a scrap I had lying around, and used filler to make it the same shape and size as it was before. Of course, the stain isn't coloring the filler the same as it's coloring the wood, despite it being nearly the same shade of stain.

Is there a thing you can do to filler pre-stain to make it take stain more like the adjoining wood?

Here is a neighboring piece of the bed to show color. I am not sure what wood it is, Mahogany or Maple maybe?

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alfadriver MegaDork
10/4/17 9:26 a.m.

the best we've been able to do is find those stain "markers"- and with those you can do a faux finish that looks more like the original wood on parts that are different.

tuna55 MegaDork
10/4/17 9:29 a.m.

In reply to alfadriver :

Over a large area? You just scribble over and over and smear it around? I had not thought of that.

alfadriver MegaDork
10/4/17 9:35 a.m.

In reply to tuna55 :

Yea, we've done it for a couple of square inches. Even has worked patching a concrete sculpture.

You mention smear- which is a good point, too- when you go to the isle of stains, you will find a great variety of stuff- including stain sticks. Which *seem* to be some kind of wax like material that is good for wood.

All in all, you are trying to faux finish it. So you can use the same techniques that people used to "age" stuff.