stain color
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Topic: stain color
Posted By: garyd
Subject: stain color
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2019 at 1:43pm
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I have a 2017 rpod 179 hood river edition.
Im trying to find out what the stain colr and manufacture is for this model. It looks like a grey/brown wash of some kind but I cant find a match anywhere. Help
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gary
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Posted By: lostagain
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2019 at 1:47pm
On our older pod, I bought several similar colors of the old more or less cherry colored stain. I mixed them in little batches with a teaspoon so I would know the ratios of colors, then when I hit the color I wanted, I mixed enough to do my stain work. It was much cheaper than taking a sample of the finish to a paint store and having them match it with a minimum of a quart purchase.
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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney
Sonoma 167RB
Our Pod 172
2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost
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Posted By: jimandclare
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2019 at 4:54pm
Scroll down to the bottom of this page and take the stain formula to Sherwim Williams. It's a pretty good match if you apply 4 thin coats.
http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11486&KW=&PID=108480&title=178-ultimate-over-the-bed-shelf#108480 - R-Pod brown stain
Thanks to another member of this forum ..... While at Sherwin Williams, if you're interested in a can of paint, you can also have them mix up a quart of "Jeffs R-Pod Brown". It is also a pretty good match to the muddy brown-grey color.
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Jim & Clare
2016 R-pod 178
2014 Ford Edge
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Posted By: garyd
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2019 at 7:58am
thank you all for all of your help
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gary
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Posted By: garyd
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2019 at 11:00am
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Well it seems Sherman Williams has discontinued the charcoal base color for this stain so the previous matches are obsolete.
I was wondering if anyone has recently matched the stain color in last year or so)
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gary
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Posted By: lostagain
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2019 at 12:42pm
Take a sample of what you are trying to achieve to Sherwin-Williams and they'll analyze it for you and give you a pretty good match. I had them match the two colors of our house paint and they did a perfect job.
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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney
Sonoma 167RB
Our Pod 172
2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost
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Posted By: offgrid
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2019 at 4:43pm
Not sure what the objective here is but unlike an opaque color the final appearance of a stain is highly dependent on the wood it is applied to, how long it is allowed to stay on the surface before wiping, etc. So, be sure to run a set of trials on the actual material being used first.
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1994 Chinook Concourse
1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft
2015 Rpod 179 - sold
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Posted By: jimandclare
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2019 at 5:04pm
Gary,
Thanks for the update. I had a 2nd quart mixed last summer and wasn't aware that the base color had been recently discontinued. Originally I had taken a sample panel to them to try and match. Took them 2-3 days but was worth the wait. If you do the same, please post the new formula to the forum. I for one will copy and save it.
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Jim & Clare
2016 R-pod 178
2014 Ford Edge
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Posted By: marwayne
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2019 at 5:09pm
There is a huge difference matching paint color or stain color. Paint is a solid color, stain could be too but I don't think you want to do that. Semi transparent stain is a different animal, just the grain from one piece of wood to another could be very different.
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If you want something done right, do it yourself.
2011 RP172, 2016 Tundra 5.7 Litre, Ltd.
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Posted By: lostagain
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2019 at 6:45pm
Good points. Transparent stain is harder to match. If you want to get as close a match as possible, take a sample of the stain on the wood you are trying to match. When I matched the stain for my shelves where the old upper bunk had been, I had a piece of the bunk wood as the match point. I worked the mix until I was as close to the sample as possible. I was using repurposed wood, some luan plywood, some left over 1x2 from the old bunk frame, and another piece of scrap hardwood I had laying around. Thankfully, they all took the stain pretty similarly and it came out with a pretty good match. Trying to mix stain to match has all the challenges of mixing gelcoat to match. It's not a job to do if you are a little colorblind.
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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney
Sonoma 167RB
Our Pod 172
2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost
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Posted By: marwayne
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2019 at 7:39pm
I always have different colors of stain around and do my own color match
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If you want something done right, do it yourself.
2011 RP172, 2016 Tundra 5.7 Litre, Ltd.
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Posted By: Ben Herman
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2019 at 6:00pm
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I tried it when I built some shelves and such for my pod but it wasn't that close - ended up going a different route and going with a natural poly finish (it was hemlock and lauan mahogany plywood).
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