{"id":24416,"date":"2025-08-13T14:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/?p=24416"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:52:07","slug":"adding-color-to-chip-carvings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/adding-color-to-chip-carvings\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Color to Chip Carvings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Marty Leenhouts<\/em><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 678px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 678px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 678px;\">\n<p>Many first-time chip carvers experience issues with color bleeding out of the chips and into the surrounding wood when staining projects. Here\u2019s what you can do to keep the color inside the chips. Once you master adding color to chip carvings, test it out on some <a href=\"https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/?p=24401&amp;preview=true\">summer-themed coasters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: revert; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">When your carving is finished, first seal the wood completely. Apply several light coats of spray satin lacquer, matte acrylic, or shellac-based sanding sealer to the entire carving\u2014front, back, and edges. If your carved item is quite thin, avoid a penetrating sealer, as this will cause the wood to cup.<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\" style=\"font-size: revert; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the wood properly sealed, brush a gel stain into the recesses of your carving and wipe off the surface with a cotton cloth. Gel stains do not absorb into the wood like penetrating oil stains. Let the stain dry overnight and spray on a final topcoat to complete the finish.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 678px;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/adding-color-to-chip-carvings\/web-strop-talk-39-adding-color-plaque-landing-image\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24417\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24417\" src=\"https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WEB-Strop-Talk-39-Adding-Color-Plaque-Landing-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WEB-Strop-Talk-39-Adding-Color-Plaque-Landing-Image.jpg 600w, https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WEB-Strop-Talk-39-Adding-Color-Plaque-Landing-Image-300x370.jpg 300w, https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WEB-Strop-Talk-39-Adding-Color-Plaque-Landing-Image-150x185.jpg 150w, https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WEB-Strop-Talk-39-Adding-Color-Plaque-Landing-Image-405x500.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"p1\"><b>If you try to color the chips with a penetrating oil stain or dye before sealing the wood properly, the colors will bleed. <\/b><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<h6><b><a href=\"https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/adding-color-to-chip-carvings\/web-strop-talk-39-chip-carving-color-lead-landing-page\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24437\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24437 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WEB-Strop-Talk-39-Chip-Carving-Color-Lead-Landing-Page.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WEB-Strop-Talk-39-Chip-Carving-Color-Lead-Landing-Page.jpg 600w, https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WEB-Strop-Talk-39-Chip-Carving-Color-Lead-Landing-Page-300x370.jpg 300w, https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WEB-Strop-Talk-39-Chip-Carving-Color-Lead-Landing-Page-150x185.jpg 150w, https:\/\/woodcarvingillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WEB-Strop-Talk-39-Chip-Carving-Color-Lead-Landing-Page-405x500.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/h6>\n<h6><b>Marty used the <\/b><b>technique outlined <\/b><b>above on his \u201cChip-Carved Ball-Foot Box\u201d from the fall 2019 issue (#88).&nbsp;<\/b><\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 156px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%; height: 23px;\"><em>About the Author<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 133px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%; height: 133px;\">\n<p><em>Marty Leenhouts is the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/mychipcarving.com\/\">MyChipCarving.com<\/a> with over 30k subscribers and 200k hours of watch time. Courses, videos, patterns and more are available at\u00a0 his website. He and his wife Shelley, also run Red Barn Retreats in Garden City, Minn.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marty Leenhouts Many first-time chip carvers experience issues 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