On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 6:14:27 PM UTC+1, S Viemeister wrote:
On 10/23/2012 1:02 PM, stuart noble wrote:

On 23/10/2012 17:47, polygonum wrote:



Completely agree that they can raise the grain. But, in that sense
luckily for me, most of my painting is re-decorating where the substrate
is already pretty well covered.

IME they only raise the grain on badly prepared timber

I brush a thin coat of shellac on raw wood, before using water-based paint.

That's what I intended to do - unfortunately someone else decided to be 'helpful' and primed it before I had the chance...