I need to know what kind of wood my dresser is made of, or board?
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Tryna make dresser look new but maybe just a lil darker would like to keep the wood feel but when i put the ashes on top n scrub seems as if wood pattern goes away and a white noard comes up hence the white streaks you see on top? Please help me!
Take drawer and go to a good carpenter (someone who builds cabinets would be perfect) They can see the wood up close and tell you what it is.
Looks like yellow pine.
It isn't really a wood with wood grain in it at all. It is a new wood type material that is made with sawdust and glue. The wood grain is a printed on by machines to make it look like wood grains. I had a book case that I thought was walnut, it wasn't. I think they call it fiber board. This was invented to use of left over pieces of wood to save the forests from getting completely cut down. I ended up painting it and then stenciling it. Like Carole suggested, take the drawer or a part of the piece that shows the white and the yellowish edge to it. They will tell you for sure. Lowes or Home Depot is a good start.
See if you can find the year it was made and the company that made it. It's probably stamped on it.
You can try to call them to find out or look up online to see if you can find an ad for the same product which would give the type of wood in the description.
Looks like pine to me. What type of ash process are you using? Unless you remove the varnish, nothing is going to "stick" unless you go to the chalk paint method.
It looks like pine , I don't think it's oak.
I agree, I don't think it's actually wood. But that doesn't mean you can't redo it!! :)
You'll never get a nice wood grain finish with this wood. if you want wood grain finish try painting using faux wood grain. I've never done this, so I don't know the process. I think any good paint store, not a big box store, would be able to tell you how to do this, and sell you products to make this happen.
That looks like fiberboard (medium density fiberboard, commonly known as MDF). It's basically a composite of wood fibers, glue, and wax. It looks like there was a veneer of sorts added to make it look like solid wood.
Sometimes, manufacturers will make front-facing pieces out of solid wood and the rest out of MDF, but that doesn't look to be the case here. The white that you're seeing is the underside of the veneer. Along the edge, the fibers are starting to separate. It'll look a bit swollen and fluffy when that happens.
Your best bet may be repainting the dresser, but you'll need to seal the edges with an epoxy to keep it from swelling up when there's humidity, or exposure to water (including paint).