Gel Stain

Gel Stain gets its deep rich hue from a large amount of colorants. Seal the stain with a topcoat before applying glaze to prevent "color pull" when applying glaze. You will get an additional benefit - the glaze will glide easier over the surface allowing you greater control of how much color you want to use. Be sure to wait 72 hours when applying water based finishes over oil based finishes.

• Glaze Effects
• Gel Stain

GF is ecstatic to present Saw Nail and Paint as our first Featured Blogger of 2017! 

Founded in 2014 by Susan Handler, Saw Nail and Paint is a furniture restoration business and blog. Susan is passionate about thrifting, interior design, and creating something beautiful from a forgotten find.

Susan says, "General Finishes products are easy to use and consistently provide a beautiful, durable and professional finish."

• Milk Paint
• Gel Stain
• featured blogger
• Chalk Style Paint

This project from Daniele of Finding Silver Pennies is an awesome example of the magic GF Gel Stain can perform!  

• Gel Stain

It's a wrap! General Finishes next round of tutorial videos are on their way! We will be releasing one per week for the month of November so stay tuned.

• Gel Stain
• gel topcoat
• tips and techniques

Today we'd like to share with you this gorgeous table that was built and finished by Marion Lovett for his own home. This project was quite the challenge considering the table weighs in at about 800-900 lbs!  It is 8" around and made of old oak barn wood.  The bottom was timberframed in the traditional fashion with mortise, tenon and pegs.  All General Finishes products were used to acheive this "medieval look".

• Gel Stain
• Arm-R-Seal Topcoat
• dye stain

In this video, Tom and Sheryl Monahan of General Finishes show how to refresh existing oak cabinets with General Finishes Brown Mahogany Gel Stain.

• Gel Stain

General Finishes is excited to show off some our new products of 2015.

• Gel Stain
• pearl effects
• water based top coat

Father's Day is Sunday June 21st.  Spend some quality time with Dad in the workshop this year and do one of these great projects together. You'll be sure to make his day extra special!

Handprint Sign

• Gel Stain
• Milk Paint
• Waterbased Wood Stains
• woodworking

• Arm-R-Seal Topcoat
• Gel Stain
• gel topcoat
• high performance topcoat
• Top Coat

You can apply Gel Stain to MDF, stained surfaces and most painted surfaces, including milk paint, chalk paint and latex paint. Sanding down to raw wood would be the very best practice but the following is the most common prep - it only takes a few minutes:

• Gel Stain