Painting And Staining Of Woods: Painting and staining of Woods and staining wood surfaces. In Painting and staining of Woods woodwork, if the w7ood has a rough grain it should first be "filled" with white lead or one of the many standard fillers. It should then be entirely covered with a coat of shellac to seal the absorbent surface. Over this sealing coat of shellac the wood may be painted in the same manner as a plaster wrall surface. Where it is desired to apply a coat of stain to woodwork, it is necessary first to apply a filler that is the same color as the stain. The surface need not be shellacked. The stain may be purchased from any paint store or it may be prepared with a thin oil base mixed with pigment.
Woods Used.—American cabinetmakers and the furniture factories that followed, down to the advent of the Modern period, used some 30 different woods. Eighteen were the more durable hardwoods and the rest the cheaper soft woods. All the hardwoods except five are native to some section, of the United States. Of these the most important are walnut, maple, cherry, and oak. The foreign ones include mahogany with the best quality coming originally from San Domingo, rosewood from Brazil, and fancy inlay woods, such as amboina, ebony, and satinwood from the Dutch East Indies, India, and Ceylon. |
