Nope, it’s been woodgrained. Not wanting to go throught the mess of stripping the bannister, I decided to take a stab at producing a mahogany woodgrain. I’ve done this before with antique auto moldings so had some experience.<\/p>\n
First lay a base of a neutral brown. As an example of colors, I’ll use the Benjamin Moore Virtual Fan deck names. Paint a single coat of Acorn brown. Then, with a 2″ brush ( no fancy brushes or “combs”) lay in some deep red similar to Tucson Red. You don’t want to cover all of the base brown, just streak it. Then, on top of that lay in some streaks of deep, solid black, not in any particular pattern but just long strokes “with the grain.” You should then see part red and part black. Finally, give it a nice coat of Minwax Bombay Mahogany Gloss Polyshades. This stain includes the gloss polyurethane. Usually, I don’t like gloss bit for the bannister it loooks a lot better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nope, it’s been woodgrained. Not wanting to go throught the mess of stripping the bannister, I decided to take a stab at producing a mahogany woodgrain. I’ve done this before with antique auto moldings so had some experience. First lay a base of a neutral brown. As an example of colors, I’ll use the Benjamin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3864,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-36561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decorative"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/09\/beautiful-mahog\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Beautiful mahogany rails?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/09\/beautiful-mahog\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/09\/beautiful-mahog\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Decorative","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"daveinbedstuy"}],"creator":["daveinbedstuy"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-09-29T08:14:26Z","datePublished":"2009-09-29T08:14:26Z","dateModified":"2009-10-01T19:01:47Z"},"rendered":"