A question for you paint experts
john lucas
I need to paint some wood so there's not grain or summer winter wood showing. In other words I don't want it to look like wood. I am using a silver or chrome paint and/or silver leaf. What kind of sealer do you use. I'm still experimenting with the type of wood. for this project I think picking the type of wood will help 100% but I'm interested in how you would seal the more inexpensive woods such as poplar or cherry. Right now the paints tend to go into the end grain or more absorbent areas of wood and it takes many coats of whatever to seal it to the point you can spray a glossy paint over it and actually get gloss.
I've been playing with Gesso, thinned lacquer, sanding sealer and wood condtioner. Non seem to work on a wood like Osage Orange. You still see the summer winter wood changes. On porous woods I have used grain filler but I still have the problem of end grain absorbing more or on woods like pine the summer wood just absorbs the paint and the winter wood takes it so it still looks like wood.
Milk paint works but on this project I can't use milk paint.
