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In the real world of woodgraining, where you need to actually match your graining to a stained wood sample, the ability to get a color match is a skill you must develop. You will not get any real help from the counter people at your local paint store for this task. You will need to know how to go about matching your base coat and glaze color.
The basic rule:
Match your base coat to the lightest color you find in the wood you are matching, and match your glaze to the darkest color in the wood you are matching.
This piece of Rift Sawn Oak has an orangey buff color for the base coat color. The glaze color is a burnt brown color.
Sometimes (rarely), you will find that you need to add accents to your woodgraining with a second color glaze. as seen on the below Ribbon Mahogany woodgraining.
Most Oak samples will use a buff color base coat. Some samples will need to be more orange, and warmer, and others will need to more golden, than orange.
Dark streaks on this sample of Mahogany required a black accent glaze in addition to the coral colored base coat and burnt dark red glaze.
Mahogany can range from a reddish color, to a brown color. The base coats can vary from a coral color as seen above to a red / orange color. Sometimes black glaze on a red base works. Look at your sample closely and match up the lightest and darkest colors.
If you have the stain color used on a piece of wood work that you are trying to match, you will see that the graining glaze will usually be pretty close the the stain color used, and all you will need to is work out is the base coat color.
This Walnut woodgraining has more of a golden overall look to it. The base coat is yellow / gold and the glaze is a brown.
This sample of mottled Maple woodgraining uses an orange / gold base coat and a Caramel brown glaze.
You can use Old Master's Wiping Stain pre-mixed colors for your graining glaze. You will most likely need to intermix more than one color together to arrive at a good match.
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