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Finishing

Discuss the finishing processes and materials used to achieve the perfect finish.

 

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Subforums

  1. Finishing Tips

    Use this sub-forum for Finishing to submit your tips and tricks related to this sometimes complicated subject.

    • 103 posts
    lew
    Refinish or reburbish this finish
    lew,

  2. Finishing Book Reviews

    Please use this forum to enter your book reviews related to Finishing.

    • To fill in the title field of your book review, please use the same title as the book you are reviewing, thank you.
    • 8 posts
    kmealy
    Furniture Repair and Refinishing
    kmealy,

  3. Finishing Archives

    This forum was moved from our old community to our new community, the software change made much of our old content disheveled and the layout looking poor. But we are keeping this forum intact, as we slowly but surely move the old content, to our active Finishing Forum.

  1. Tgif: Three Things : Three Steps To Cleaning a Varnish Brush. May 29,2018

    kmealy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views
    lew
    lew

  2. Lacquer As Natural As You Can Get.

    Stick486,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Stick486
    Stick486

  3. Sikkens Cetol Cedar Translucent Stain?

    Al B,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Al B
    Al B

  4. Tgif: Three Things: Three Techniques for Brushing Varnish. Tuesday May 22, 2018

    kmealy,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.5k views
    lew
    lew

  5. Tgif: Three Things: Three Things That Add Color - Tuesday, May 15, 2018

    kmealy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.5k views
    lew
    lew

  6. Tgif: Three Things: Three Types Of Finishes Tuesday, May 8, 2018

    kmealy,
    • 2 replies
    • 2k views
    lew
    lew

  7. Window Mounted Fan For Spraying Lacquer

    difalkner,
    • 46 replies
    • 5.2k views
    DRAGON1
    DRAGON1

  8. Tgif: Three Things: Three Major Parts Of Any Finish

    kmealy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1k views
    Fred W. Hargis Jr
    Fred W. Hargis Jr

  9. Tgif: Three Things: Three Ways To Apply Finish, Tuesday 4/24/2018

    kmealy,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Michael Thuman
    Michael Thuman

  10. Finishing Tips

    kmealy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.5k views
    kmealy
    kmealy

  11. Spraying Bin

    Fred W. Hargis Jr,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.5k views
    scarletjim
    scarletjim

  12. Tgif: Three Things: Steps In Finishing

    kmealy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1k views
    lew
    lew

  13. Colored Woods

    Dadio,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Gerald
    Gerald

  14. TGIF: Three things that affect finish curing Tuesday, March 20, 2018

    kmealy,
    • 9 replies
    • 1.6k views
    Gerald
    Gerald

  15. Tgif: Three Things: Why We Finish Things Tuesday, April 10, 2018

    kmealy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views
    lew
    lew

  16. Tgif: Three Things: Why Finishing Is Confusing Tuesday, April 3, 2018

    kmealy,
    • 5 replies
    • 1.6k views
    kmealy
    kmealy

  17. TGIF: Three things: Why finishing is important Tuesday Mar 27, 2018

    kmealy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views
    lew
    lew

  18. Dye over lacquer

    Gerald,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.6k views
    Gene Howe
    Gene Howe

  19. Shamrock

    Artie,
    • 7 replies
    • 1.6k views
    kmealy
    kmealy

  20. I want to show what I started with

    Smallpatch,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Danl
    Danl

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