I have always said what I thought, sorry if I have offended anyone.
Back to the original thread, Yogi asked how to make Alkanet root oil.
Then we went to blood red colour and then to Behlen, which sounds good.Then Dave gave us some pearls of wisdom and his comments above made me chuckle.X Chisels do us war babes never throw anything away? It's the rationing that causes it you know.Well I've got gallons of the stuff, litres, pints, gills, quarts, bloody hell if I had a fire I would double global warming overnight.I have used Coloron and Blackfriars stains and they work very well,Ronnie Rustin knows his stuff, but one of the best for colour I used is Punch shoe leather dye.As for how long stains last and work? I have got a gallon of (make not known) mahogany red dated 1964 and used it on Monday September 11th 2006, wood looked pleasing this morning.