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: Flexner On Finishing
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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Applying Wiping Varnish
An excellent finish for first timers (and beyond). Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the November 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. Wiping varnish might be the most popular hand-applied finish used by woodworkers. It’s …
Read moreThe 7 Myths of Polyurethane
All levels of finishing are burdened with myths, but the types of finishes used by amateurs and sold in home centers and woodworking stores suffer the most. Myths about polyurethane are a good example of the problem.
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