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Author:  ClintB [ Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:43 pm ]
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Thanks to everyone here for sharing their techniques/tips. I want to try a hand-rubbed oil finish in a couple weeks time.

Colin, when you say the room should be dry, why is that? Is it fine if I leave my room at the 40-45% RH that I like to hold it to?

-Clint
Author:  Colin S [ Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:22 pm ]
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ClintB wrote:
Thanks to everyone here for sharing their techniques/tips. I want to try a hand-rubbed oil finish in a couple weeks time.

Colin, when you say the room should be dry, why is that? Is it fine if I leave my room at the 40-45% RH that I like to hold it to?

-Clint


That's fine.

Colin
Author:  Ken Mitchell [ Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:58 pm ]
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What do people use to raise the grain, as mentioned a couple of times in this thread? Does a wiping with a slightly damp rag do the trick, or do you use another solution?

TIA,
Author:  Ken Mitchell [ Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:13 pm ]
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What do people use to raise the grain, as mentioned a couple of times in this thread? Does a wiping with a slightly damp rag do the trick, or do you use another solution?

TIA,
Author:  ClintB [ Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:58 pm ]
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Ken, a lot of people like to use egg whites to raise it, then sand back to bare wood.

-Clint
Author:  Howard Klepper [ Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:42 pm ]
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ClintB wrote:
Thanks to everyone here for sharing their techniques/tips. I want to try a hand-rubbed oil finish in a couple weeks time.

Colin, when you say the room should be dry, why is that? Is it fine if I leave my room at the 40-45% RH that I like to hold it to?

-Clint


I strongly suggest that you get clear about the difference between an oil finish and an oil-based varnish finish before you go ahead.
Author:  Laurent Brondel [ Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:43 pm ]
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A wet cotton rag (not soaking…) on the whole guitar, let dry, sand back. A few sessions are sometimes necessary.
Never heard of egg whites to raise the grain, perhaps to fill the pores?
Author:  ClintB [ Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Hand rubbing/applying an oil varnish anyone?
Howard Klepper wrote:
ClintB wrote:
Thanks to everyone here for sharing their techniques/tips. I want to try a hand-rubbed oil finish in a couple weeks time.

Colin, when you say the room should be dry, why is that? Is it fine if I leave my room at the 40-45% RH that I like to hold it to?

-Clint


I strongly suggest that you get clear about the difference between an oil finish and an oil-based varnish finish before you go ahead.


Just a typo, I meant to say I wanted to apply a hand-rubbed oil varnish. Agreed that the distinction is imperative.

-Clint
Author:  Colin S [ Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Hand rubbing/applying an oil varnish anyone?
Laurent Brondel wrote:
A wet cotton rag (not soaking…) on the whole guitar, let dry, sand back. A few sessions are sometimes necessary.
Never heard of egg whites to raise the grain, perhaps to fill the pores?


I use egg white as a size on the soundboard of all of my instruments, (tests that we have done in the lab show 300 year old lutes with egg sized soundboards, on some German lutes it was the only finish on the soundboard) one of the biproducts of the process is that it also raised the grain.

Colin
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