{"id":231532,"date":"2016-06-17T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/?p=231532"},"modified":"2016-06-17T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:50:52","slug":"tip-cherry-blotching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/tip-cherry-blotching\/","title":{"rendered":"TIP: Cherry Blotching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most often asked questions among woodworkers concerns methods of avoiding blotching in cherry. The questions are encouraged by countless articles in magazines purporting to reveal the \u201csecret\u201d method. Inevitably, these articles are disappointing because there is no way to keep cherry from blotching except to conceal the problem by adding color to the finish\u2014in effect, making a thin paint.<\/p>\n<p>This is what most furniture manufacturers do when finishing cherry, with the result that the wood is muddied and doesn\u2019t look much like cherry.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.07143rem; letter-spacing: initial; line-height: 1.42857rem; text-transform: initial;\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/blogs_posts-Cherry-Blotching_large.jpg?2595953278739014494\" style=\"float: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.07143rem; letter-spacing: initial; line-height: 1.42857rem; text-transform: initial;\">In fact, the only way to totally avoid blotching with a stain or clear finish is to choose boards and veneer that don\u2019t have the tendency to blotch. An example of how much the choice matters is shown in the accompanying photo of two adjoining cabinet doors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.07143rem; letter-spacing: initial; line-height: 1.42857rem; text-transform: initial;\">Cherry blotching is usually discussed in the context of staining, with the solution being to washcoat the wood with a thinned finish before applying the stain. This is unquestionably partially effective. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.07143rem; letter-spacing: initial; line-height: 1.42857rem; text-transform: initial;\">But it is never totally effective because the washcoat itself brings out the blotching. All clear finishes cause cherry to blotch. Stains just accentuate it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The doors are veneered and finished with a fast-drying, clear conversion-varnish finish. There\u2019s no stain. The door on the right blotched while the one on the left didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most often asked questions among woodworkers concerns methods of avoiding blotching in cherry. The questions are encouraged by countless articles in magazines purporting to reveal the \u201csecret\u201d method. Inevitably, these articles are disappointing because there is no way to keep cherry from blotching except to conceal the problem by adding color to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":231533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1209],"tags":[1395,1402,1400,1396,1293,1227,1379,1403,1316,1297,1229],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}