Need a Real Practical Answer

Re: Need a Real Practical Answer

s.mackay@worldnet.att.net

>Don't do cabinets and furniture on any scale (yet !), I do custom models and peices. Nothing leaves the house 'till it looks like glass. I've tried just about every method ever suggested here at WC and others. The rule for woodworkers seems to be the same as auto body and paint. You've always got to "fill" the surface. And I always use my " Pearl Analogy " thinking. Any pores or "matter" on the peice just get more pronounced with more coats of finnish. In the end the surface has to be evened wich means sanding (I'll get shot up over this !). Smaller and smaller grits. As small as you have time (or patience) for. This goes for a razor's edge, glassy finnish. Tung oil and other finnishes, I've found, are a different path.

Rubbing is practical

Michael Dresdner

>"...to get that feel without spending large amounts of time... Steel wool and wax does not seem like a practical approach."

It seems practical to me. In fact, once you get used to doing it the process takes very little time and returns an outstanding look and feel.

Perhaps the problem is not the time per se but the mindset that it is not part of the finishing process, which makes it seem like a delay in delivery instead of a charged for and paid for step in the building process.

Michael Dresdner Please Read

Howard G

>Thanks for your input - here is my impression on the wax and steel wool approach - doesn't this automatically create a maintenance issue for a customer, meaning that the wax will need to be refreshed with more wax at some point, something I don't think most customers would do. Most customers just want to, dread the thought, spray pledge and wipe. My other impression is that how well does this work with all the nooks and crannies, doesn't wax get cuaght and then you spend the time having to buff it out? Doesn't this add more time to do the buffing? I am willing to try it, could you please give me a sense of what the process is likely to entail.

Re: Michael Dresdner Please Read

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

>Mr. Dresdner I'm not! But I have always felt that waxing furniture is an eventuality for maintenance of a finish. I advise my clients to avoid the spray stuff and use a good paste wax when they feel the finish could use it.

Tom