The modern wood finisher; a practical treatise on wood finishing in all its branches .. by Maire Frederick

Author:Maire, Frederick. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Wood finishing
Publisher: Chicago, Press of the Western painter
Published: 1901-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

THE MODEBN WOOD FIMSHEB.

varnish manufacturer whose reputation is made to suffer unjustly by this "substitution racket."

VARNISHES.

It is not intended here to give the reader instructions for the manufacture of varnishes, for to do so requires appliances far beyond the reach and possibilities of the average wood finisher or manufacturer of furniture, for that matter. The processes are very intricate and would be out of place in a work of this kind. But while there is no necessity to-day, for the finisher to make his own varnishes it is well that he should know a little something about varnishes, as no workman can ever know too much about the material he continually uses. This elementary knowledge will enable him to make the right choice of a varnish for the right place.

Varnishes are made from resinous and gum-resinous substances. Some are soluble in alcohol, some in turpentine or other vegetable oils and some again in the fixed oils such as linseed oil and poppy seed oil, etc. These liquids are called the vehicle and according as they enter into a varnish make these quick-drying by their quickly evaporating away as when composed of alcohol or the volatile oils, or slow-drying if linseed oil is the solvent. A mixture of these vehicles will consequently be quick or slow in the proportion that either the volatile oils or the linseed oil predominates. There is another reason for a varnish being slow or quick besides that of the composition of its solvents or vehicle,

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