Littlefair's Wood Stain Water-Based - (French Oak) – Non-Toxic, Eco-Friendly & Quick Drying - Easy-to-Apply, Concentrated Formula for All Wood Types – 250ml

Have used Littlfair before & never disappointed. Colour is perfect & ease of use & finish is a dream.Brushes etc easily clean via water, dye soaks in, not many coats needed. I used one as that was the depth I needed. Very little used so value for money.

As described, happy with this product, result is good.

I wanted a water based stain to soak into my wood and colour it. I do not really like using a coloured varnish, so wanted to do this in two stages.This stain is easy to work with. It has the same consistency as water, so if brushing, use a jam jar or something to help reduce the amount of stain on the brush. Then I found it best to quickly brush it out (almost scrubbing it) as far as possible. Overloading the brush will cause splashes, and pooling on the surface. The colour will not be very dense on a first pass like this, but it might be surprisingly nice and even. If I was doing the same job again, I might have actually stopped before developing the full colour. The first passes left a subtle colour and more prominent grain, which was nice. Using a dark stain (French Oak), this disappeared somewhat with further coats.The stain finish is very flat matt and actually begs to just be polished, but I had planned to finish with a satin varnish to make it look a little more saturated, and to protect the wood from splashes, and make for easy cleaning. I used the littlefriars water based varnish, but this was much more tricky than the stain. The water based varnish started picking up stain in seconds, and spreading it around like a coloured varnish (which I wanted to avoid as it is too easy to produce streaks). I am not sure if an oil based varnish would have had the same effect. It is probably best to test the system components before attacking the final product, but does anyone ever do that ? I dont as I am too impatient, so I can blame myself for shortcomings in the finish.With the water based varnish picking up some of the stain, it was inclined to leave darkened marks at the end of brush strokes. If ending brush strokes on the same line (as I would for painting). This produced noticable lines accross the work, so I started ending lines in a sawtooth to avoid straight lines. Grain differences seemed also to be exagerated by the varnish interaction with the stain.I now think that the first varnish coat needs to be applied reasonably thickly and very quickly , to avoid going back over the same patch (in total opposition to painting the stain). Returning to a patch even within seconds will result in picking up the stain in the varnish and moving it in an undesirable way, and probably resulting in patchy or streaked work.Most of my difficulty was with the varnish but this needs to be known when starting out. I still think this is what I wanted and think it relatively easy to use, it just needs care when finishing.

Really good stain did what I wanted it for looks good would recommend this product good coverage after a few applications to get the colour i wanted is very watery i put it on with a paint brush easy application

it is suitable only for pure, and smooth. Not recommended for scratched wood.

Amazing product! After trying different ones and i could never get the color what they promised this brand is just so refreshing to use. Colour came out beautiful it's not patchy 😁

Does what it saysJust remember though because it's water based the grain will lift after the fist coat .Lightly re sand and apply a send coat and check againLovely colour.

Perfect colour for what I wanted. I got the French Oak. It took 2litres to stain my Ikea Ivar shelves (excluding inside the cabinets), and I only did one coat. I probably should have treated with wood conditioner and sanded the pieces first, and given everything a second coat, plus the varnish on top, but I was lazy and ran out of time. I'm really happy with how just one coat looks. It's so easy to use. No smell at all. I used a normal paint brush but switched to a foam brush. Both worked well, but the foam brush was easier to control. Love it. The pic with 4 stains from top left: English Oak, French Oak, Black Ebony, Dark Red Mahogany.

Lässt sich perfekt verarbeiten und hat einen schönen Glanz.

On the second picture I have two coats of French Oak applied to my countertops. Applied with sheep's wool rounds and finished with hard wax. I love it!

Good but I thought it was about to get my wood very dark… but it’s not. I guess need to do it again- bought the product more than 6months ago, sanded my wood, cleaned it, did the product… was great but overtime it’s fading away. You won’t get something dark wood in one go, need to be dedicated (did at least 5 layers)

Funktioniert wunderbar und ist sehr ergiebig.

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