Paint or stain Santa - Page 2

gene-messer · #11 10-24-2009, 10:23 AM

Tom .. your painted Santas are my best bet

Gene

Tom-H · #12 10-24-2009, 11:17 AM

And since I do value your suggestions, here's what I am doing this AM. It's either paint or rake leaves.....Yep! I got lots of these little buggers to do, but then I got lots a big trees too. Thanks again for the nice comments and suggestions.

Tom H

TOEKNEE · #13 10-28-2009, 09:40 AM

i get tired of painting small items like this, so i stain them. i take some BLO, and mix any brand of colonial pine/maple/oak stain (pick a shade you like) with it, i would say about a 3:1 ratio, and stain. i finsih with a coat of feed-n-wax. i do this when i am to lazy to paint. actually, even the stuff i paint gets a coating of this mixture before painting...

gtech · #14 10-28-2009, 08:15 PM

I always prefer stained to painted, specially for what I carve, but these days I seem to paint more than before. It must have something to do with Xmas colors...

That said, I like the stained one better for my taste, but anything related to Xmas look better painted.

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