Preparing Furniture For French Polishing

This text contains a concise and detailed guide to the art of French polishing. Complete with helpful diagrams and easy-to-follow instructions, this guide is perfect for those with little or no experience in French polishing and makes for a great addition to collections of DIY literature. The sections of this book include: 'Shellac', 'What French Polishing Is', 'The Polishing Workshop', 'The Polishing Rubber', 'Preparing Surfaces', 'Preparing New Wood', 'Wax Stopping', 'Fillers and Filling', 'Fatting of Bodying-In', 'Bodying-up or Working-Up', 'Colouring', 'Spiriting', 'Supporting', 'Work for Polishing', and more. This antique book has been elected for modern republication due to its instructional value, and we are proud to republish it now complete with a new introduction on French polishing.

This vintage handbook provides practical instructions in the art of wood finishing techniques, including French Polishing, staining, waxing, oiling and repairing and restoration methods. Featuring photographs and diagrams, it is still of great use to anyone interested in classic woodcrafts and traditional wood finishing techniques. Contents include: Wood Finishing; Staining; The Various Simple Finishes; Other Simple Finishes; The Modern Finishes; French Polishing I - Staining and Filling; French Polishing II – Fadding; French Polishing III – Colouring; French Polishing IV – Bodying; French Polishing V - Stiffing and Spiriting off; French Polishing VI - Ebonised and Ivory Finish; French Polishing VII - Faults and How to Avoid Them; Oil and Wax Finishes. Floor Staining and Polishing; Varnishing. We are republishing this guide a modern and affordable edition, complete with a newly written introduction and reproductions of the original artwork.

This handy book contains a wealth of information on the finishing of wood, and will be a valuable addition to the bookshelf of any woodworker. Contents include: Stains for Woods; Woods for Staining; Staining; French Polishing; Preparing Furniture for French Polishing, Glazing etc; Matching and Improving Defects in Polishing and Their Remedies; Polishing Inlaid Work etc; Oak and its Various Finishes; Oil Polishing and Wax Polishing; Stencilling on Wood and Ornamental Wood Staining; Varnish; Varnishing; Faults in Varnishing; Appendix.

Considered to be one of the most beautiful ways to finish wood, French polishing is virtually unique in that polish applied today will adhere to polish first applied a hundred years ago. This means that, providing the original French polished surface is still intact, there is no need to strip it off and start again when restoring an antique piece. It also makes it the perfect finish to ensure that a new item of furniture will become an heirloom. This no-nonsense guide to the process of applying layers of shellac to create a high-gloss surface includes all you need to know from choosing materials and setting up your workshop to preparing the surface and applying the finish. There is also a section on resolving common problems and plenty of helpful, practical tips. Whether you are an accomplished woodworker or a wood finishes novice this book will lead you through the history of French polishing and then explain, in a clear and straightforward way, how to carry out the process. There is one project - one to restore an existing finish and one to apply the polish to a new item of furniture - that are fully illustrated and thoughtfully explained.

This antiquarian book contains a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to French polishing. French Polishing is the art of covering wood with a layer of lac laid on in solution, the object being to produce a highly polished surface. Containing easy-to-follow instructions and helpful illustrations, this guide is perfect for the novice with little previous experience and makes for a great addition to collections of DIY literature. The chapters of this book are: Preparation, Staining, Filling In, Fadding-In, Colouring or Matching, Varnishing, Finishing, and Polishing Period Furniture. We have elected this book for modern republication due to the timeless nature of its contents, and we are proud to republish it now complete with a new introduction on French polish.

Considered the most perfect of all wood completes, French finishing is a centuries-old procedure utilizing hand-scoured shellac to create a profound, shiny completion. With more than 30 years of involvement as a luthier (producer of string instruments) and finisher, the writer's dependable strategies are introduced in this book and will permit the understudy to rapidly dominate the specialty of French cleaning bit by bit. The creator improves the regularly befuddling and clashing portrayals of this strategy, and presents each progression obviously and compactly. The materials required, the creation of the muneca (scouring cushion), the planning of the shellac arrangement, the readiness of the wooden surface, the application and support of the completion are completely covered. Actually a sort of stain, shellac is a characteristic plastic, resinous material produced using discharges of the lac creepy crawly. Along these lines, and in light of the fact that liquor is the solitary dissolvable utilized, shellac is a harmless to the ecosystem wood finish, not at all like current completes, for example, nitrocellulose enamel and polyurethane, and is one reason the creator accepted this method numerous years prior. Furthermore and to its exceptional magnificence as a wood finish, the creator likewise embraced this strategy due to the improved acoustic properties of a French-finished instrument. Most of high quality old style guitars today are French cleaned. In spite of the fact that, for instance, the French finishing of a guitar is depicted all through this book, any carpenter applying a completion to any carpentry venture can utilize the strategies introduced. French cleaning is a fundamental strategy utilized in antique furniture rebuilding, and is a worth added forte expertise for any guitar shop to offer. This is likewise an ideal decision for somebody who has quite recently perused a How-to-Build-a-Guitar book, completed their first guitar and don't have any desire to also buy a splash stall, shower hardware and well being gear, also cleaning and the space required.

First guidebook printed in America dealing with furniture finishing, preparing, cleaning surfaces, dyeing, staining, varnishing. Detailed procedures on French polishing, mirror silvering, gilding, Boulle-work marquetry, much more.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "French Polishing and Enamelling: A Practical Work of Instruction" by Richard Bitmead. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.