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French Polish (Take ounces avoided wood)

Take 2 ounces avoided. wood naphtha, 1/2 ounce best shellac, 1 drachm 3008. How to Give Black Walnut a gum benzoin; crush the gums, mix them with Dark Dead Smooth Surface. Take asthe naphtha in a bottle; shake them frequent-phaltum, pulverize it, place it in a jar or ly till dissolved; it is then ready for use. This bottle, pour over it about twice its bulk of is the clear polish. Take a little cotton wool, turpentine or benzole, put it in a warm place, apply a little of the polish to it, cover it and shake it from time to time. When distightly with a linen rag, to which apply a solved, strain it and apply it to the wood with drop of linseed oil, to prevent it from sticking a cloth or stiff brush. If it should make too to the wood; use your rubber gently, polish- dark a stain, thin it with turpentine or bening from a centre in a circular manner; finish zole. This will dry in a few hours. If it is with a drop of spirits of wine on a clean rub- desired to bring out the grain still more, ber, which will extract the oil. apply a mixture of boiled oil and turpentine; 3003. To Stain or Color French Pol- this is better than oil alone. Put no oil with ish. Wood may be stained or grained any the asphaltum mixture, as it will dry very color or design , by mixing it with the polish, slowly. When the oil is dry the wood can be or dipping the rubber in the color (anely polished with the following: Shellac varnish, powdered), at the time you apply the polish. of the usual consistency, 2 parts; boiled oil, (See No. 3002.) To produce a red, dip the 1 part. Shake it well before using. Apply cotton into dragon's blood (finely powdered), it to the wood by putting a few drops on a immediately applying the polish; then cover cloth and rubbing briskly on the wood for a with the linen, and polish. For yellow, use the best chrome yellow. For blue, ultramarine blue, or indigo. For black, ivory or lampblack, &c. Graining is produced by touching or streaking the wood with the color, as above, in irregular lines or marks, and in spirits; next shave bees' wax, 1 ounce, and such shapes as the fancy may suggest, then dissolve it in a sufficient quantity of spirits of finishing it with a coat of clear polish. turpentine to make it into a paste; add the few moments. This polish works well on old varnished furniture.