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Cabinet Varnish

Fuse 7 pounds add 2 quarts oil of turpentine. If too thick, African copal, and pour on it 4 pints hot clarified linseed oil; in 3 or 4 minutes, if it feels stringy, take it out of the building, where there is no fire near, and when it has cooled to 150° mix in 3 gallons oil of turpentine of the same temperature, or sufficient to bring it to a due consistence. add turpentine. Apply with an ordinary paint brush. 4 Spirit Varnishes The spirit employed for making spirit varnishes should not be less than 95 per cent. In preparing and using them, they should be kept 2894. Bessemer's Varnish for Metallic Paint. This is made with 8 pounds at a distance from a candle or other flame. copal, 2+ gallons drying oil, and 25 gallons Respecting the gums (resins) employed, it oil of turpentine. These are made into a may be useful to mention that shellac is renvarnish nearly as directed for Cabinet Var- dered more soluble by being powdered and nish (see No. 2893); and afterwards mixed exposed for a long time to the air (see No. with a gallon of slacked lime and left for 3 2906); sandarach gives hardness to varnishes; days to settle. The clear portion is then mastich gives a gloss to a solution of other drawn off, and 5 parts of varnish mixed with gums; benzoin still more, but its color is 4 parts of bronze powder. objectionable; anime readily dissolves, but