What part of the "chatoyance" from...

7/19/05, 4:41 PM #1

Denis Chénard, Orléans, Ont.
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What part of the "chatoyance" from...

Denis Chénard, Orléans, Ont.

>...smoothing a board with a handplane can be attributed to the burnishing action of the sole on said board?

Rank amateur question, but it seems to me that the sole has to play a non-negligible part.

Has anyone tried sanding a board to an arbitrary level of smoothness, then ran a smoothing plane (with no iron in it) with the same downward pressure as if actually handplaning the board? Then compared it with a suitably comparative handplaned board for relative chatoyance?

Just curious...

DC

Re: What part of the "chatoyance" from...

7/19/05, 8:27 PM #2

George
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Fishermen and Shoemakers.....

George@Colonel's Workshop-Havertown PA

>Good Afternoon Denis,

.....also save soles. :<)

George

Re: What part of the "chatoyance" from...

7/20/05, 3:20 AM #3

Victor Parisian
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thank goodness for google...

Victor Parisian

>chatoyance

Encyclopædia Britannica Article

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the property of some minerals to exhibit a wavy, luminous band with a silky lustre, reminiscent of the eye of a cat, in the centre of a cabochon-cut (polished, with a rounded, unfaceted convex surface) stone. The effect, caused by parallel fibres or by oriented imperfections or inclusions within the stone, is typical of cat's-eye, tigereye, satin spar, and bronzite. The fibres, …

Re: What part of the "chatoyance" from...

7/20/05, 2:06 PM #4

Denis Chénard, Orléans, Ont.
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We learn something every day...

Denis Chénard, Orléans, Ont.

>Cat is "chat" in French. Didn't make the link...

DC

Re: What part of the "chatoyance" from...

7/20/05, 9:29 PM #5

Patrick Gibbons, Houston
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Re: We learn something every day...

Patrick Gibbons, Houston

>...and oiel is eye in French. Chat oy ance; catseyeness.

Re: What part of the "chatoyance" from...

7/21/05, 3:34 AM #6

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>My own experience is that the more the surface is modified from planed/scraped to sanded/burnished, the less chatoyance is displayed. Also a function of the surface coating, where a traditional varnish or thicker gloss lacquer finish likely acts as an additional internally reflective surface to enhance the effect. The most dramatic effect I've managed was figured mahogany, plane/sand with tung oil to fill the grain/10 coats of Interlux. You could trip and fall through that wood.

What part of the "chatoyance" from...

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