wood for handles

[beast]

i posted in the fit and finsh but i'll try here. i have a lot of butter nut boards and it is nice wood most is three colors but i'm not sure if it will stand up on a handle:confused:

[birdog4]

Butternut is a little coarser grained than walnut but works fine for handles.
Even when sanded down to 1000 grit, it's quite "grippy"
Nice colors and goes well with antler .

[Davis]

I have a finishing question... sorry to jump in on your thread, beast..

Read about a stain/finsisher of equl parts boiled linseed, acidic acid and ____.

Anybody ever heard this? Or have any idea what the 3d ingredient is?
One of those 'know it if I heard it' things.....

thanks guys,
Trish

[beast]

thanks birdog4 i'll try on the folder i started last night

[Fox Creek]

Trish, some old shop recipies call for acetic acid as an ingredient in making a hide glue emulsion. I think the acid acts as a preservative also. There are also formulas for oil and glue emulsions, as in a painter's half-oil ground (now that's an obscure tid bit. I bet I'm the last person in N. america to make a half-oil ground. ) So I wondering the other ingredient was hide glue? Did this come from an old shop formulary?

[Davis]

Don't think so, I found the recipe in a library book on the post-Colonial period. How would hide glue enter into the equation? Curious.....


But tell us, what is "painters' half-oil?"
Even more curious ...

Trish

[Fox Creek]

Oh, a half-oil ground is an emulsion of oily and aqueous binders for a pigmented ground coat as a foundation for painting; a 19th century anachronism, intended to combine the virtues of both, but actually only embodying the faults of both. (mine cracked, and on a rigid support too, had the glue too strong.) back in my bohemian painter days I was fond of experimenting with different obscure mediums and materials.

I suspect that the hide glue would add a quick building quality to the finish. 'might make it somewhat thixotropic also.

[Sweany]

thixotropic ? man that sound impotant

[Fox Creek]

Yea, that's a good one to use once in a while. Thixotropic. Means it has body at rest, but upon mechanical agitation it becomes thinner in consistency. A lot of gels have this property. High grade acylic house paint for example. maybe a good Bar-B-Que sauce.