My coaster experiment.

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I'm sure this will be of great interest to all MyLotters. In a recent post I mentioned how the red mahogany stain I use on my coasters had gone almost dry. I went ahead and started a pair of coasters, and the color was unusually dark for red mahogany. I decided to do an experiment: I sprayed some Howard's Orange Oil into the tin of stain. Howard's is my default oil for the work I do on vintage loudspeakers. I wanted to see if it would "loosen up" the remaining stain and make it more liquid. My experiment seems to have worked! The stain is usable again, and the color is slightly lighter than it was when the stain was more of a goo than a thick liquid. I'll attach a photo with the "dark" coasters I'm making on the left and the "stain and orange oil" coasters I started a couple of days ago on the right. The difference is fairly subtle, but it's real. Do you do little "experiments" around your house, just to keep life interesting? Using different attachments on you vacuum cleaner, or peanut oil v. olive oil in your cooking, or catchy titles on MyLot, DOES count!