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scraped and oiled

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scraped and oiled

janderr

>levelled with a stanley #80, smoothed with a card scraper. and one coat of linseed,


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SLICK!

Catharine C. Kennedy- Chatham Center, NY

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Beautiful!

Richard A.Gillespie, Jr.

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R.J.Whelan

>I've not seen Gatorade used in finishing before - did you use it to raise the grain prior to the BLO? I'll have to give it a try ... rj :-)

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what kind of wood is it?

Andrew Frank

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janderr

>this is a highly guarded secret kept by ceramic garden gnomes. under certain conditions: planetary line up, 0 kelvin, on april 1st gatorade applied to spf framing lumber turns it into hard maple. i can't believe i exposed it, the gnomes will haunt my dreams for this.

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janderr

>it's curley hard maple. a lucky find at my local hard wood dealer, a pair of book matched 4/4 boards. i keep a good repport with the warhouse guys who let me spend hours labouring through the stacks in response to me fetish.

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