Introduction and Toner Explanation

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The video begins with an introduction to the project, which focuses on transforming existing wood trim. The trim is currently a lighter, golden-oak-like stained and lacquered finish. The goal is to change this to a dark espresso color without painting it opaque, allowing the wood grain to remain visible. To achieve this, a product called 'toner lacquer' (also referred to as 'toners') is used. Toner lacquer is essentially wood stain mixed directly into lacquer. The custom espresso color was developed by taking a sample of the existing trim to a local cabinet shop that specializes in mixing pigmented lacquers. They then added toner to clear lacquer and sprayed it onto the sample until the desired espresso color and translucency were achieved.

Goal: This step introduces the project, which involves changing the color of existing stained and lacquered wood trim using a product called 'toner lacquer'. The speaker explains what toner lacquer is and how the custom espresso color was developed.

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Custom-Mixed Toner Lacquer (Espresso)
Existing Wood Trim

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it's the lacquer in the air so we got a really cool project today and I'm with journeyman John once again and we've got some trim right here and this is a stained and lacquer trim and it's kind of a I don't know like um a lighter colored um I don't know how you would describe it um like a golden oish golden oish um yeah something like that and so the customer didn't want to paint this tram it's kind of a whole lot of work to paint it cuz it wasn't paint gray but they wanted it to be um what they describ as a dark eony color or um not ebony but espro espresso color and they wanted it but then they didn't want it to be opaque didn't want it to have that painted look to it so what did we do we came up with what we call toner lacquer toners and if you've never heard of that well it's kind of simple it's just stain in lacquer and what we did is uh I took down a piece of this sampl this trim took it down to our local cabinet shop that mix up all our pigmented lacquers and asked them to Mi Mix us up a toner that would give me kind of an espresso color and so they took a sample of this and they started adding toner in it and sprained it on there until they achieved the look that I wanted and then we um said yeah so here we are doing this and how's the process go John it's pretty

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