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water-white lacquer. The trick is to get
the finishing material to contact the
wood and dry at the same time, so the
carrying agent (alcohol, thinner or turpentine)
has no time to enter the pores
of the wood and darken it . I would use
an air brush of the type commercial
artists use, or a mouth sprayer, which
you can buy for a couple of dollars at an
art-supply store. Regulate it to spray as
much air and as little finish as possible,
and hold it far from the work. The rust
coat must be infinitely light and thin.
Succeeding applications can be a little
heavier, but you must not rush. It will
take a certain amount of skill and a
great deal of patience. You could also
try two coats of a dilute, lukewarm solution
of bleached hide glue, well
sanded, under any clear finish ."
To Harold Kauffman, who makes
clock cases of pine and is plagued by
pitch streaks breaking through his walnut
stain and varnish : George Frank
replies, "This is an age-old problem
and the easiest way to deal with it is to
select a better grade of pine with less
pitch. The second solution, which I
learned in school but have never tried,
is to wash down the pine before finishing
with a fairly strong solution of lye,
rinse with clear water, let dry and sand.
The lye should remove most of the
pitch, and it would increase the contrast
between the hard and soft grain,
making the pine more attractive. A
third way, which I have done, is to set a
match to the pitch and burn it out,
then clean the hole and fill with tinted
plaster or stick shellac. The difficulty is,
you can do it only when a teardrop of
pitch is visible on the wood."
Guy Bradt of San Carlos, Calif. , believes
the problem is caused by improper
seasoning, " since it takes a minimum
of 1380 F to crystallize pitch in
ponderosa and sugar pine. I suggest
putting the blanks for the case parts in
the oven at 1500 F for half an hour.
This seems to eliminate bleeding."
Reader Jonathan Wagman of Ulster
Park, N. Y., asks : "How shall I finish
my redwood picnic table and benches?
The store advised a redwood stain,
which turned out to be mostly paint
and flaked off. We've sanded it down
to the bare wood."
Frank replies : " Redwood is so beautiful
it doesn't need any stain to en-
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