Can anyone point me to a good site on how to apply finishes to turned
pieces. When I started, I used the friction polish stuff as it hit a lot of
errors. Now that I am getting better I have Danish oil and lemon oil in my
collection, but I have no idea of how much or roughly how long you should
use them on the piece you have done. For example a four inch diameter bowl.


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Russ Fairfield does an admirable job of introducing quite a few finishes
used in woodturning at...

http://www.woodcentral.com/russ/russ3.shtml


There's far far more to it and very much disagreement concerning some
details on the subject than can be found there but it'll get you started and
it's available, for free, and all in one place.


- Andrew



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Can anyone point me to a good site on how to apply finishes to turned
pieces. When I started, I used the friction polish stuff as it hit a lot
of
errors. Now that I am getting better I have Danish oil and lemon oil in my
collection, but I have no idea of how much or roughly how long you should
use them on the piece you have done. For example a four inch diameter
bowl.


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I apply all my finishes to turned items while they are still on the lathe.
I stop the lathe, apply the finish with a rag, paper towel or whatever, let
it stand for a short time, depending on the finish, then turn the lathe back
on and buff with a dry etc. HOWEVER, before you buff, be sure the lathe
bed, lathe table and any nearby wall are protected, and stand to one side
when the lathe starts. I use saran wrap for protection but that is just
because we always seem to have a lot in the kitchen. Mongoose hide would
probably work just as well.

Bob Moody

In message , Bob Moody
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I apply all my finishes to turned items while they are still on the lathe.
I stop the lathe, apply the finish with a rag, paper towel or whatever, let
it stand for a short time, depending on the finish, then turn the lathe back
on and buff with a dry etc. HOWEVER, before you buff, be sure the lathe
bed, lathe table and any nearby wall are protected, and stand to one side
when the lathe starts. I use saran wrap for protection but that is just
because we always seem to have a lot in the kitchen. Mongoose hide would
probably work just as well.

Bob Moody


Bob, I use kitchen towel to take off excess prior to turning the lathe
on, this does reduce the splash and evens the finish over the item.

How does the mongoose feel about using his hide The ultimate
'polished seat'?

Bob `S`
--
Robert Strudwick

I take a cardboard box set it on the ways covering bowl ect and stick a
speaker magnet inside. This holds the box in place. Also works great for
LLD. Of course I didn't know about that the first time, so you can see I
turn because of the line of finish up the wiindow behind my lathe.

Bruce
"Bob Moody" wrote in message
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I apply all my finishes to turned items while they are still on the lathe.
I stop the lathe, apply the finish with a rag, paper towel or whatever,
let
it stand for a short time, depending on the finish, then turn the lathe
back
on and buff with a dry etc. HOWEVER, before you buff, be sure the lathe
bed, lathe table and any nearby wall are protected, and stand to one side
when the lathe starts. I use saran wrap for protection but that is just
because we always seem to have a lot in the kitchen. Mongoose hide would
probably work just as well.

Bob Moody