[TheForge] Aging wood

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Sandblasting will give new boards the right texture, followed by 
bleaching and then dyeing to get the color right.  You can mechanically 
distress the wood with chain or whatever before dyeing, though 
generally, it takes a light touch to get it right.

Charles

Tod Estes wrote:
> Get a 20ft chain, tie it to the chain so that the end of the chain stikes the
> wood, tie other end to your truck, drive down gravel driveway. Repete as
> needed. vary speed to suit.
>
> Bend to fit paint to suit.
>
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