On 5 Dec 2005 04:58:23 -0800, scribbled:

I was just having a quick re-read of all the replies here. I'm a
little confused, now, about the use of water -- I thought you *had* to
use it to raise the grain at some point in the finishing process. But
-- it's almost sounding as if you only need to do that if you are about
to apply a water-based finish (which I'm not). Is that correct?

Yes. If you don't deliberately do it before, water-based finishes will
raise the grain.

With oil-based products do you just use mineral spirits?
Oil-based products do not raise the gain, so there is no need to raise
to do it.

Luigi
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