Rather not paint over versus hydro dip etc.
Can it be stained effectively?
YT wasn't to helpful
Can it be stained effectively?
YT wasn't to helpful
Laminate stock color change.
- Thread starter TxMaligator
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Not usually. Laminate stocks are bonded with epoxy resin under great pressure when the prestained layers are bonded together. There is little porous material left to take a stain. Each layer is pre stained through and through. Picture a laminate stock as a brick of solid glue and stained wood. Some stocks like my Marlin laminate stock were originally unstained and colored with a single color tinted clear. I refinished that stock by stripping the brown colored clear coat revealing a light uncolored wood underneath. I believe it's birch that's used in laminate stocks. I tried a regular liquid stain but it wouldn't accept it because of the through and through resin. I eventually used a dark brown gel stain and it barely colored the stock. Similar to laminates beech doesn't take a traditional well and they too can be "stained" with a colored clear coat like Minwax polycoats. If a laminate stock is through stained, you'll never get rid of the original color unless you paint over it
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Yeah I'm pretty well at that point of understanding of the whole laminate concept.
No local dippers anymore, vinyl wrap is out unless I ship out.
No local dippers anymore, vinyl wrap is out unless I ship out.
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