You Can Do It - Tobacco Funiture Stains

Al Carrell: You know it used to be that painters and furniture refinishers made their own stains and paint out of berries and bark and other natural things. My grandpappy passed along a recipe that I think is really neat for making a stain out of chewing tobacco and ammonia. What you do is you take a pint of ammonia, and I've already got the ammonia here in the jar and then you crumble up the chewing tobacco, break it up. Hey, that's tough. I don't know how anybody would chew that stuff. But once you get it started, you can break it up pretty good. Once you get it all crumbled up then you want to seal it up real good and tight and you want to go away and just forget about it for at least 10 days. And when you come back, it's going to become a real nice stain, but you have to strain it before you'll be able to use it because you're going to have all these little bits of tobacco that are still in there. Incidentally, you probably want to open it outside, because the ammonia smell is still going to be there. Now rather than keep you on the hook for 10 days, I've got some that we've already made up and I've already strained and I'll show you what it looks like on the wood. It really is different with different kinds of tobacco and you might want to play around with it, but it does give a real pleasing effect here. It's not a real deep stain, but see how that brings out the grain of the wood? And if you want to, you can make up a story about your old grandpappy and make it your own family recipe that's been passed on.

Episode 018 1995 - 96 Season

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