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Black Walnut Stain
Take 1 quart water, 1½ ounces washing soda, 21 varying the color from white to the deepest ounces vandyke brown, 4 ounce bichromate of black. The color will appear dull at first; potassa. Boil for 10 minutes, and apply with but, on oiling it with raw linseed oil, and ruba brush either in a hot or cold state. This bing it with a smooth piece of hard wood, it is an excellent stain. (See Nos. 2853 and will be beautifully developed. Give the cane 2854.) 2857. To Improve the Color of any Stain. Mix in a bottle 1 ounce of nitric acid, tea-spoonful muriatic acid, 1 ounce grain tin, and 2 ounces rain water. Mix it at least 2 days before using, and keep the bottle well corked. no other finish, unless it be another oiling some days after the first. 2858. Το Stain Musical Instruments veniently divided into two kinds, viz., and Fancy Boxes. Fancy work necessitates spirit and oil varnishes. Concentrated alcohol the employment of brighter colors than those is used as the solvent in the former, and fixed used for furniture; we therefore give the following receipts for preparing and applying those most commonly employed for such purposes. or volatile oils, or mixtures of the two, for the latter. The specific gravity of alcohol for the purpose of making varnishes should not be greater than 0.820 (that is, not below about