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September 13, 2019

No-Fuss Finishing for Wood

Filed under: Woodworking — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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(For thinning Shallac and cleanup.)
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(I used Varthane in the video, but I usually use Minwax. I don’t see a difference between them.)
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(My favorite for buffing out final finishes and wax)
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(For poly/linseed oil ONLY. DO NOT USE with Shellac).
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(Not the one I used but looks the same. Rated for all finishes.)

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July 25, 2018

Relaxing finish application with explanation/instruction [ASMR] | Paul Sellers

Filed under: Tools, Woodworking — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Paul Sellers
Published on 5 Jul 2018

This is an excerpt of a longer instructional series on woodworkingmasterclasses.com. In this video, Paul Sellers carefully applies a shellac finish to a small wooden shelf he just completed.

Paul is a master craftsman and, even though what he is doing here is super basic, it shows.

Sit back, relax and enjoy!

For more information on these topics, see https://paulsellers.com or https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com

July 26, 2017

What Kind of Finish Should You Use? | WOOD FINISHING BASICS

Filed under: Technology, Woodworking — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Published on 24 Feb 2017

Don’t be intimidated! Wood finishing is simple and easy. This video will get you started with the basics.

May 17, 2017

The Only 3 Sandpapers You Really Need | SANDING BASICS

Filed under: Technology, Tools, Woodworking — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Published on 20 May 2016

Sanding can be time-consuming, tedious and one of the dustiest, messiest, most boring tasks in woodworking. But it’s also something that you’ll have to do in just about every single project. I hope to minimize the monotony in this Sanding Basics video. Please read the full article: http://bit.ly/WWMMsanding

May 1, 2016

QotD: The wonders of shellac

Filed under: Humour, Quotations, Woodworking — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 01:00

The finish had been subject to extremes of sunlight and temperature and humidity. Not left outdoors, but I figured an attic or something. My neighbor later told me that it was left on an enclosed porch for many years. Bingo. The finish was missing here and there, but what there was looked like suede when you ran your finger across it. It was completely crisscrossed with fingermarks going every which way. I pawed at it a bit, running through the rusty filing cabinet of my mind to figure out what I was looking at. It came to me in a vision — all at once.

I knew it was shellac. Of all the dumb luck. No one had “fixed” this piece of furniture in 75 years. It didn’t have any new, improved finish that wouldn’t last but couldn’t be fixed. It wasn’t “eco,” another word for wasteful useless disposable plastic crap. The finish was made from the nasty ooze that comes out of a lac bug and dries on a tree branch. Your favorite Hindoo used to gather the stuff by putting tarps on the ground under trees where the lac bugs congregate, and then beating the limbs with sticks to make the amber flakes rain down. When you mix lac leavings with alcohol, you get shellac. It’s wonderful stuff.

Shellac sticks to anything. Anything sticks to shellac. Shellac can be diluted till there’s barely a whisper of lac left in it, but it still makes a coherent film. It seals knots. Shellac can be polished to mirror shine if you want to. A technique called French polishing is the finish you saw on Baron Percy Devonshire Smythe XXIVth’s harewood and mahogany gaming table back when King George was still gibbering on his throne. You can make shellac look like anything you want. Our dresser had pigment mixed in with it to make a kind of varnish stain that could be sprayed on in one coat as an all-purpose stain/finish.

Shellac is so safe for humans to handle that you can eat it, and you might have. They used to make the capsules that drugs and vitamins come in out of shellac. And the greatest thing about shellac, at least for me, is that no matter how old it is, it immediately dissolves and gets loose in the presence of alcohol, just like everyone at your office Christmas party.

Sippican Cottage, “Happy Birthday, Mrs. King”, Sippican Cottage, 2016-04-20.

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