Homestead transfast dye powder

[newood2]

Anyone ever use this dye? How do you like it? I want to try the early american color on some maple.
Howie

[MikeMcCoy]

I use a lot of Trans-tint from Homestead and you can rest assured that anything they carry is good quality. The only transfast I've used was a dark mission brown and I was very pleased with the results. It's recommended to use distilled water to avoid the minerals in the tap water.

[cabinetman]

I've used Homestead dye powders, and prefer the alcohol based dyes. They don't raise the grain, and seem to carry more color. Over large areas, there is more of a "lapping" problem with dyes over an oil base stain.
.

[jziegler]

I used a mix of the red and brown mahogany dyes on oak and god a very nice color. I've pretty much given up on oil based stain for this stuff instead. A slight warning though, I used shellac over the dye, and the shellac does redissolve some of the dye.

Jim

[newood2]

Over large areas, there is more of a "lapping" problem with dyes over an oil base stain.
.

Cabinetman, could you elaborate on the lapping problem?
Thank you
Howie

[cabinetman]

Cabinetman, could you elaborate on the lapping problem?
Thank you
Howie

Doing large areas, overlapping a previous path can produce a darker (or more color) as it can be like a second coat. Alcohol dyes dry the fastest, and are more difficult to control. Waterbased dyes stay wet longer, and are easier to blend in. Water based stains dry even slower and can be blended. Oil base stains stay wet the longest.

It's a matter of going over a section that has started to dry.
.

[newood2]

Thanks cabinetman