{"id":78,"date":"2004-10-07T13:04:24","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:12:08","slug":"finish-with-microfiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/finish-with-microfiber\/","title":{"rendered":"Finish with microfiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was finishing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/archives\/000040you_got_your_slate_in_my_coffee_table_part_iv.html\">coffee table<\/a>, I had all sorts of problems with the cloth I was using to apply shellac. I tried old T-shirts, socks, just about everything, but kept having problems with lint and pilling, which would show up in the finish.<br \/>\nI recently was wandering the aisles at Costco, with that typical look of fear, determination, and opportunity that one gets at massive consumer warehouses, when I stumbled on a five-pack of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00064803Y\/personworks-20\/ref=nosim\/\">microfiber towels<\/a>.  Microfiber is a cloth made from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefitness.com\/glossarym.html\">tightly-woven polyester or nylon fibers<\/a>. I&#8217;ve played around with it before, and it seemed like a great candidate for applying finishes&#8211;car detailers use microfiber cloths specifically because they tend not to leave behind lint.  So I tried it on my humidor.<br \/>\nThe results were excellent, with one catch.  As with many things, the dye used to color the microfiber is slightly alcohol-soluble.  The cloths I used were yellow, so the shellac took an a (slightly more) yellow color than before.  Not a big deal for my purposes, but something to keep in mind.<br \/>\nGet some microfiber cloths.  You&#8217;ll thank me for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was finishing my coffee table, I had all sorts of problems with the cloth I was using to apply shellac. I tried old T-shirts, socks, just about everything, but kept having problems with lint and pilling, which would show up in the finish.<\/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-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}