Finishing the 5 Types of Woods
Organize all the woods into categories to determine the best finishing strategy. Woodworkers choose among dozens of wood species for projects. Unless you’ve actually used many different woods and…
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Category Archives: Finishing Techniques
Understanding Wood Finishing
Here are four things you need to know. Finishing is not hard to understand. As I’ve pointed out in previous articles, it’s made confusing by manufacturers who don’t understand their own products, so they make up names and claims …
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Sticky Finish Mystery
A newly-installed oak floor with oil-based polyurethane wouldn’t dry after five days. What was the problem? Bob Flexner explains.
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Arts & Crafts Oak Finish
Layering colors is the secret to an authentic look. When a customer asked me to replicate the finish on her antique Stickley sideboard for the pieces she had commissioned, I grabbed my yellow dye and a few gel stains, because …
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Easy Aged Cherry Finish
Wipe on years of age in less than a week. If you want to make a woodworker gnash his teeth, ask him to make new cherry look like cherry that has aged naturally to a rich, dark brownish hue. Why …
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