"Dick Snyder" wrote in
:

In any case, that is the kind of thing I would like to read about for
now - call it Wood Finishing 101. Do you have any recommendations for
me?


Start with almost anything by Michael Dresdner, Jeff Jewitt or Bob Flexner.
Then read something by one of the others.

A library should do. Anything published in the last ten years will give
you a good start.

Patriarch