The Hollow
Out of My Depth, and Right at Home
Three days at the Finishers Guild Gathering: a room full of masters, a firehose of technique, and one old finish they all agreed on.
Out of My Depth, and Right at Home
Three days at the Finishers Guild Gathering: a room full of masters, a firehose of technique, and one old finish they all agreed on.
Witness Marks
On restoring things made long before you and built to outlast you — a morning with Ben Parry, who restores old rooms and old furniture the old way.
Witness Marks
On restoring things made long before you and built to outlast you — a morning with Ben Parry, who restores old rooms and old furniture the old way.
How to Read a Bag of Shellac
Grades, forms, harvests and cuts — what every word on the label means, and which one to reach for.
How to Read a Bag of Shellac
Grades, forms, harvests and cuts — what every word on the label means, and which one to reach for.
A History of Lac Turning
The paper trail behind coloring wood with a stick of lac on the lathe runs from a traveler’s account of 1596 to a Victorian dictionary to the workshops still doing...
A History of Lac Turning
The paper trail behind coloring wood with a stick of lac on the lathe runs from a traveler’s account of 1596 to a Victorian dictionary to the workshops still doing...
The Wax Was Never the Problem
A can-label warning from the polyurethane companies, three careful books, one convenient product, and twenty years of forum posts: how a narrow rule turned into “always,” and what the rule...
The Wax Was Never the Problem
A can-label warning from the polyurethane companies, three careful books, one convenient product, and twenty years of forum posts: how a narrow rule turned into “always,” and what the rule...
Lac Turning, In Practice — How to Use Friction-...
The lac-turnery technique of Channapatna, at your own lathe: pressure, the burnishing leaf, and the smallest dab of oil there is.
Lac Turning, In Practice — How to Use Friction-...
The lac-turnery technique of Channapatna, at your own lathe: pressure, the burnishing leaf, and the smallest dab of oil there is.