right here so I embarked on restoring a 1920s oak table with is just absolutely beautiful quarter sawn oak top now I was looking to actually stay and match this top in order to match it to some chairs that I had that have the same cloth edith as this table so i spent some time working on the actual stain that i was going to use and ran into some problems so i was able to tune it to one of the leafs but when I actually went to put it on the tabletop it kind of got away from me and ended up and off the line so well I guess I wouldn't say a lot but just too much to notice so I was hoping to find a way that I could kind of tune this back and bring a little more yellow into it to match the yellow that's present in the chairs so first I thought I'd give it a try with mineral spirits and a couple other solvents but you know wiping away on it you're really not able to pull up much of this dried stain but I came across kind of a cool little trick I don't know if anybody else has ran across this but it's actually using a little bit of a thing this is triple odd steel wool so what I found is if you kind of just lightly go over the surface and I mean lightly and you're gonna do full strokes across the workpiece so you end up not getting blotchiness in that stain just continually run back and forth you got to make sure you're careful in these corners here because you don't want to kind of round over it and end up removing a lot of the finish but this is more or less just to lighten it a little bit now I've done it to the other side and I don't know if you can really tell on the camera but it's just a little less red which is what I'm looking for so I just continually go over the surface using super light passes and now by doing that you can see that it's starting to pull up this stain that was a present on the surface no because I am using this like I said I believe it's triple odd it could be wrong on this I might have to compare correction in the comments on this video it's really not pulling up much of the finish so you're able to do it in a very controlled manner and make sure that you're not a you know leaving sand scratches that would be present and your finish or taking up too much finish and you know not being able to control it like I said it might be a little tough to see it on the camera but this is definitely lightning my staying by just a few shades so it should be that perfect match the chairs that I'm looking to match has finished you you need to see how much finish I'm actually pulling up so I hope somebody else finds this useful otherwise if you have a better way of lightening your wood stain after you've applied it please let me know in the comments