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Thread: Why oil French Polishing pad?
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29th November 2020, 09:31 AM #31
I had the same thoughts reading this thread.i picked up a tub of shellac from memory at the Canberra or Sydney wood show years ago. Has largely been in dark cool (maybe there's been some hot days in there) dry cardboard box storage over the years. It doesn't have a package date on it it's just empty
I poured a small amount into a jar with 100% metho about 18 hours ago and looks like mushed up corn flakes. I'll leave it longer but just seems to have gone off
I suspect I'd just need to buy another and use it within 6months as it says on the tub lol. I wasn't aware of this use by date
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29th November 2020, 06:42 PM #32
Yeah Delbs, you and I both. I buy so many things with the INTENTION of using them
UBEAUT, have you considered updating your site at all?
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29th November 2020, 07:45 PM #33
Ha why do you think I'm hand tools only/mostly this time. Two rules are restore tools to USE them and use my materials instead of collecting and hoarding like I used to haha
My shellac fell into my old hoarding rules unfortunately.
I do however need to buy a copy of the polishers handbook so perhaps some shellac can sneak into that order
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3rd December 2020, 12:48 AM #34
Not Stupid as per Delbs post #28 above.
If shellac flakes are kept cool, away from bright light and heat, and not in a tin container they should last for many years. Heat and bright light are problematic. Keeping in a fridge is a good idea, an esky in the coolest part of shed or house should be fine but just anywhere in the shed which on a hot summer day could be in the high 40s'isn't a good idea.
Delbs Geez it must be old haven't done Canberra for around 10 + years and Sydney not much less.
If it looks like mushed cornflakes after 18 hours it might just be no good. Probably been heat and/or light affected at some time. Give it a stir and if it goes to all liquid it should be alright. If it's still moosh... Nup it's no good. If it's left without stirring or agitating it could look like moosh and still be alright if it dissolves when stirred.
For what it's worth. We keep all our shellac and made up finishes in a 40ft. refrigerated shipping container at between 8c/12c constant but can get up to about 16c/18c on really bad 40c+ day(s). Good place to have lunch on a 40c+ day
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However it's taking for ever and a day to get done. The current site is antique and I built it all myself back around 1998 or 99 I have no trouble doing whatever needs to be done on it and never have. But the new one is all but finished and I'm to the point of pulling my hair out because I can't get my head around the back room stuff of design, final layout, etc. So having to rely on a third party to do this and it's frustrating.
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3rd December 2020, 07:06 AM #35
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Hang in there with the new Ubeaut shop website, Neil. I feel your pain. I too wrote the website for my son’s Strutmaster business over 10 years ago now, but the web design software has all changed with CSS and styling and blocks etc. The site is antiquated too, but I would not have a clue how to modernise it. He will have to go to a web designer
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19th December 2020, 09:05 AM #36
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ubeaut,
Thanks for the YT link. A simple to follow and very instructive demonstration.
No wonder my few attempts were not the best: I was "flooding" the surface by using too big and too wet a pad !!!!
From now on it will be golf-ball-size pads and drops of shellac rather than generous squirts of the stuff!!!
Cheers
Yvan
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23rd December 2020, 05:41 PM #37
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Good video. I started a new thread with this question, but lost the lot when I submitted it. Golden Rule- always compose lengthy threads in Word first.
In the video he dusts a fine coat of 4F pumice onto the raw timber before the first coat of shellac to act as a grain filler. I went to Carbatec today to buy pumice. They sold me U-Beaut Tripoli powder which they assured me was the same thing. After a bit of research I found it isn't pumice. It isn't rottenstone either. According to the U-Beaut website it is used AFTER French polishing to remove blemishes and impart a sheen.
So regardless of what it is, does anyone know if it is suitable as a grain filler for French polishing? If so, does it show up as white on dark timbers?
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24th December 2020, 04:04 PM #38Golden Rule- always compose lengthy threads in Word first.
I started a new thread with this question, but lost the lot when I submitted it.
When you're typing into the text box, the forums will Auto Save your post/thread every minute or two. You may notice a little yellow note pop up in the bottom rh side of text box every now and again saying Auto Saved. If you see it then that will be the last point you can restore to if everything goes left handed in the next minute or so....
So unless your fingers are lightening fast on the keyboard the worst you might lose could be a sentence or only a few words.
Hope this is of some help.
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24th December 2020, 04:37 PM #39
Drafting in email is my trick (Thunderbird).
It fixes my terrible spelling too
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24th December 2020, 04:41 PM #40
OOPS!
Sorry I got carried away and completely forgot the bit about the pumice.
I went to Carbatec today to buy pumice. They sold me U-Beaut Tripoli powder which they assured me was the same thing. After a bit of research I found it isn't pumice. It isn't rottenstone either. According to the U-Beaut website it is used AFTER French polishing to remove blemishes and impart a sheen.
So regardless of what it is, does anyone know if it is suitable as a grain filler for French polishing? If so, does it show up as white on dark timbers?Tripoli Powder is: A porous, friable, microcrystalline siliceous rock of sedimentary origin that is composed chiefly of chalcedony and microcrystalline quartz.
What we sell is called Air Float Cream (AFC) which is the finest grade and named so because if you throw some into the air it will hang there for quite some time.
Yes it can be used to fill the grain and as it basically goes in almost colourless it blends in well with most woods. However because it is so fine it may clog the pores of your rag.
Pumice doesn't really fill the grain with pumice although a portion iof it ends up in the pores. It fills the pores with the dust of the wood as the pumice is basically grinding the surface of the work like sandpaper and pressing the shellac sodden dust into the pores of the wood. So it's more a case of filling the wood with itself.
You can also use a very small amount of our Talc in some white shellac to fill the pores of very open grain wood. Maybe a teaspoon of talc to 250ml shellac. Brush on leave to dry well and sand with fine abrasive (no courser than 600 or 800 grit). The talc makes the sanding easy as it helps to not clog the abrasive. Works best with dewaxed shellac and can also be used with our sanding sealer. Don't do too many coats of it loses it's transparency and starts to become a bit translucent instead.
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24th December 2020, 06:46 PM #41
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