This is known in the painting trade as “Swedish putty”. Make your own matched putty by mixing your oil-based stain with “whiting”. Pre-seal your stained woodwork before you use this putty and then varnish over it. The colored putty comes in most of Minwax’s stain colors and can be intermixed to tweak or match any color stain that you need to match. Simple enough huh? There are a couple of brands out there, one that I use is Minwax.
If you can find a match to your stain in a standard color then you are in luck, but if not, you will have to find something else to do the job. They only come in so many colors and you really can’t custom match these to your wood stain. The downside of these crayon-like filling sticks is that you will have a hard time finding sufficient quantities of these, and they take a lot of time to fill and then wipe clean with mineral spirits. One method that I don’t use as a professional painter, but it is still viable for a small project or for the DIY’er, is the colored putty sticks.
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How to Stain Wood Putty to Match ( Image Source) Wood Finishing: How to Stain Wood Putty to Match There are three putty matching methods that I have used over the years, it is good to know all three methods, each has it’s time and place for using. Wood Finishing: How to Stain Wood Putty to Match - On any stain job you will have to fill the nail holes with a putty that is matched to your stain.
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