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I will be collecting man cards from each poster that remarks on flowers....
Ok, now seriously, avoid the Thompsons. I have a deck that I built using Brazillian Redwood, so I know a thing or two about stain. I would try either Cabots Austrailian Timber Oil or Messmer's. I think you can get Cabots at Lowes, but you may have to go to a local speciality place to get the Messmer's.
No matter what you do, take plenty of time cleaning up / disposing of the rags and anything that has stain on it.
And before you ask, yes a pair of latex gloves I wore a number of years ago staining my deck spontaneously combusted. Fortunatly the scrap pile of wood that was near them was some of the brazillian redwood, so it smoldered for hours. By the time it flared up and caught the side of my house (outside garage wall with two 5 gallon dirt bike fuel cans right on the other side) on fire my wife was home, and someone walking by saw the flames. My wife was able to put it out with some quick thinking and the hose and called 911. The FD still cut a big hole trying to determine the cause of the fire.
Lucky for me it wasn't bad at all, as it basically just barely burned the siding.
Bill
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