Short description
Instructing woodworkers on how to choose, prepare, and apply wood finishes, this reference provides easy-to-follow steps on how to minimize costly mistakes and ensure beautiful surfaces. It includes topics such as creating a test sample, sanding techniques, using wood putty and epoxy, employing pigments and dyes, and utilizing decorative methods.
Long description
Instructing woodworkers on how to choose, prepare, and apply wood finishes, this reference provides expert opinions with easy-to-follow steps on how to minimize costly mistakes and ensure beautiful surfaces. Covering the entire finishing process, chapters include topics such as creating a test sample, sanding techniques, using wood putty and epoxy, employing pigments and dyes, and utilizing decorative methods. A final chapter compiling the author's most amusing anecdotes from a lifetime working in finishing is also included.
Review
Very readable and presented in a straight-forward manner. It also fills a gap in the market place on how to use these readily available finishes which are now becoming popular in the UK. -- Yandle's Wood Club Newsletter, UK