{"id":114,"date":"2005-01-11T11:31:38","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T18:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:12:05","slug":"a-great-rotten-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/a-great-rotten-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"A great rotten finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can slap this on in a night.  It&#8217;s tough, scratch-resistant, alcohol and water resistant, and it goes on great over trouble woods like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/archives\/000096dont_inhale_the_coco.html\">cocobolo<\/a>. It&#8217;s clear and adds depth to any wood. And you can get almost everything you need from the <a href=\"www.homedepot.com\">Jolly Orange Giant<\/a> for under $20.  Here&#8217;s how it works.<br \/>\n1) Paint on a coat of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00068ZJES\/personworks-20\/ref=nosim\/\">dewaxed shellac<\/a>.  Fresh-mixed from flakes is best, but Zinsser&#8217;s will do fine.  This seals the wood, makes for nice adhesion, and (if you use a yellow or even better a garnet shellac) adds a nice color tone to the wood.<br \/>\n2) Spray on a coat of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodcraft.com\/family.aspx?familyid=4174&#038;refcode=05INFROO&#038;PRID=Frgl4174\">Deft spray lacquer<\/a>.  If your surface is on top, you can spray a heavier coat, since it won&#8217;t drip.  If it&#8217;s vertical, stick with very light coats.<br \/>\n3) Wait 45 min or so and repeat the lacquer applications until you get a nice thick coat.  I used a &#8220;gloss&#8221; lacquer with about 4 medium-heavy coats.<br \/>\n4) When it&#8217;s dried completely, wet a rag, dump some <a href=\"http:\/\/woodworker.com\/cgi-bin\/FULLPRES.exe?PARTNUM=849-839\">powdered rottenstone<\/a> on the surface and rub like crazy.  Add more water or rottenstone as needed.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s it.  You will wind up with a gorgous, lustrous, clear, hard, beautiful, superlative coating.  I did this to the top of my portable humidor (plans coming soon), and it looks amazing.  To save a little time, by the way, you can rub with powdered pumice (which is coarser) before you go to the rottenstone.<br \/>\nTry some rotten polishing.  You&#8217;ll thank me for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can slap this finish on in a night.  It&#8217;s tough, scratch-resistant, alcohol and water resistant, and it goes on great over trouble woods like cocobolo. And you can get almost everything you need from the Jolly Orange Giant for under $20.  Here&#8217;s how it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}