Fuming a Finish – Cool but Harmful!
I’ve loved building Arts & Crafts furnishings for a variety of years. The look of the quarter-sawn oak after ending has all the time been a robust promoting level – a widespread strategy is a historic ending course of referred to as fuming. In a nutshell, the thought is to show the completed piece of furnishings to the fumes of ammonia. The tannins within the wood react to the fumes and darken. Fairly cool. But as you’ll discover within the photograph above, the ammonia jug has a cranium and crossbones on it! Sure, the ammonium hydroxide within the answer degree required to get tannins to react will blind, you, burn your lungs and extra. Not cool. Dale Barnard additionally loves building Arts & Crafts furnishings and he’s carried out his homework on the advantages and deficits of fuming. Within the video under he talks about each and presents some recommendation and options. I do know I agree together with his outcomes and I feel you"ll t...