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A glaze is a small amount of colorant carried in a clear base (such as Clear Glaze Effects or

ANSWER: You can design your own custom glazes, washes and varnishes with General Finishes intermixable water based products. See tips and recipes below:

GF Tip: For all of the following mixes, GF recommends the following two steps:

You can design your own custom glazes, stains, washes, and varnishes with General Finishes intermixable water-based products. **Do not mix General Finishes Glaze Effects with General Finishes Water Based Stain (including Pre-Stain Natural) See tips and recipes below.

For all of the following mixes, GF recommends the following two steps:

Meet "Rockstar", a cleverly designed Blue Buffet finished in Coastal Blue Milk Paint from General Finishes.

The votes for our first Milk Paint color contest have been counted. After 127 submitted entries and 1,014 votes, we have a total of 12 color contest winners!

Q: Which 12 colors will remain in the Milk Paint line?

A primer is your best defense under light-colored paint.

Another technique to avoid the slight color change that sometimes occurs when applying topcoat is to add 10-15% of the paint you are using to your topcoat. This technique layers additional coats of color over your piece as well as providing the protection of a topcoat. If you don't like measuring, just add enough paint until you can see a bit of the hue in the topcoat. This method works with a brush or a spray gun.

To maintain the full-strength protection of the topcoat, DO NOT TINT YOUR FINAL COAT of topcoat.

Make your own custom glazes by mixing with GF water-based paints & stains, or use to dilute GF Glaze Effects colors. Glaze Effects Clear Base is the base used to make General Finishes Glaze Effects.

Yes, there are a couple of ways. Dye Stain Reducer is the clear base that we use when manufacturing General Finishes Dye Stains. The Reducer is made first, then the dye color is added.

It is easy to make your own custom color Dye Stain by adding in 10% increments of Dye Stain color to Reducer until you achieve the color you want. It is not possible to mix too much of our Dye Stain and Reducer together.