FinishingWood Finishing Techniques and Advice
Understanding solvents is family affair
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 00:00
Solvents are difficult to understand because they all look alike in the can. To make sense of them, and especially to understand lacquer thinner, which is the most important solvent for fast-drying finishes, it helps to organize the solvents into families.
Finishing both sides is warped thinking
Tuesday, 05 August 2008 20:05
It’s a widespread myth among woodworkers and finishers that to prevent warping it’s necessary to balance moisture-vapor exchange by finishing both sides of wood.
Cooking up the right finish is paramount
Wednesday, 27 August 2008 15:32
As every throwback woodworker knows, using natural oil-resin varnishes yields a fine surface
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