[JohnWill]

Like you say, I don't have an issue with how hard the finish is where the trim is located.

I also use a rag to rub the stain after applying it with the sponge brushes. I let is sit for 10-15 minutes and then work it over with the rag to even it out and remove the excess. I've tried the one step stain/finish stuff, but I'm not impressed with the job it does over the separate staining and finishing steps.

[hewee]

I like WATCO DANISH OIL. Guess because we used it so many time at work but you got a all in one finish you can put on and doing many coats you can get a very nice finish.

Read this Cabinets, Furniture, Woodworks: Watco Danish Oil, Watco Danish Oil

It may help you match up the stains on each piece of wood better.
Takes a little testing but it could work.

[JohnWill]

Well, that looks like WAY too much work for window trim!

Now, if I'm finishing fine furniture... maybe.

[hewee]

Yea it does take a lot of work but it is what may be best trying to match up woods.
Even more so I bet if you had to replace part of trim in a older house where the wood is not even the same. Well same wood but if you look at really old oak and they way they cut it your have a very hard time even finding the same looking grain now days and then staining it even if you do get it to match and its the same wood your still have another type of grain it it because of the way newer trees grow and are cut.
Where I moved from they had this old barn. Had a work shop that on the wall had this stick. I think it was a vine from the way it looked from a brush out from. But they had it there I think to shape it. It was a cane. Had really fine like bark on it and the wood was really hard. I took it and with a putty knife got all the bark off of it. Only sanded it some because it really did not need to be sanded and the wood being so hard and smooth it did not need it. I took a rag and steel wool and put on 6 or 7 coats of WATCO DANISH OIL and it really turned out nice.
Only bad thing about it even with the nice handle on the cane was the other end was where the knock was. You could not use the cane on any hard floor without adding a rubber cane end to it and that made it look bad. So I got a nice cane that looks great but not something you can use unless you want to take it out and the woods to walk around with as a walk stick.