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Monthly Meeting
Follow-up
Steve Kern's Wood Finishing
(8/1/11) - click here for PDF
John Leake's Slant Front Ladies Desk handout.
Gail Fredell's pickling recipe:
1. wash 8 - 12 pads of med-course #2 or #3 steel wool thoroughly in dishwashing
soap to remove all oils, etc.
2. soak steel wool in 1 gallon of clear white cider vinegar for 36 - 48 hours.
steel wool must be completely submerged in vinegar!
3. pour off vinegar into a clean container - either glass or plastic. strain
vinegar through coffee filters to remove iron particles.
4. this solution is your full-strength pickle. if you keep it in a closed
container and out of direct light it can be good for 2 - 3 weeks.
5. I dilute the pickle with water depending on how dark I want to turn the wood
I am working with; the more water added to the solution, the lighter the mix.
Tips:
1. I find it essential to do tests/samples every time, so I always save all my
cut-offs while working on a piece for samples later on.
2. the color will darken and shift when finishes are applied, so complete
samples by applying finishes.
3. add 6 drops of ivory liquid soap to a gallon of pickling solution to help
break surface tension and get the solution to go down into the pores of the
wood.
4. the pickled wood seems to continue to darken a bit over time.
It's all highly un-scientific and sometimes unpredictable.
I have used this with: redwood, mahogany, walnut, cherry, white oak, soft maple.
Members can contact me with questions if they run into any snags or surprises.
gail@gailfredell.com
Donald Bradley's Book List, from his July 12, 2010,
presentation: click here
John Leake's presentation, May 3, 2010
And again, John comes across with a helpful handout.
Queen Anne Lowboy.
Jon Welch's presentation, October 5, 2009
Windsor stool
handout.
John Leake's presentation,
February 5, 2007
Again, John's presentation is accompanied
by a handout.
Piedmont Sideboard.
Bo Hurley's presentation, January
8, 2007
Bo has composed an addendum to his presentation. You can read it by clicking here.
Chair.
John Leake's presentation, August
1, 2005
John's presentation was so good, it could
have been considered a seminar. His handouts had to be posted somewhere, so here
they are. Give a click.
Sliding dovetail jig, and more.
Event check-list:
BANNERS
BROCHURES
BROOMS
CAUTION TAPE
CHAIRS
DISPLAY BOARDS
DUCT TAPE
DUST PANS
EXTENSION CORDS
FINISHING SUPPLIES
FLOOR STANDS
LABELS
LATHES
MARKERS
NAME TAGS
PAPER TOWELS
PLASTIC SHEETING
PRICING TICKETS
ROPE/STRING
SCROLL SAW
SCROLL SAW PATTERNS
SHELVING
TABLE CLOTHS
TABLES
TARPAULINS
TURNING TOOLS
U-HAUL
WOOD BLANKS
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