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Coloring Finishing And Painting Wood

3. Before the solution No. 1 is quite dry, apply a No. 2 bleaching agent made of sodium bisulphite and water. Apply both bleaching solutions when cold.

4. After the sodium bisulphite coating has dried, all bleached surfaces should be sponged thoroly with water in order to remove any excess of bleaching chemicals.

5. Resanding with 4/0 sandpaper is needed after bleaching and washing with water in order to remove the fuzz raised by these operations.

6. Apply with a spray-gun a coat of full-strength bleaching lacquer. Fig. 29. Omit any sanding after this coat dries.

7. About 2 coats of white shellac of 31/2 or 4-pound cut should be applied in full strength and sanded when dry to a smooth surface. Coats of sanding sealer may be substituted for the white shellac if the sanding sealer be pure white. Sanding sealer is made for application with a spray-gun.

8. Over the shellac or sanding-sealer coatings spray on one or preferably two coats of water-white, dull lacquer in full strength.

9. Rub the lacquer coating when dry with rubbing-oil and pumicestone until the surface is smooth.

10. Polish the rubbed-lacquer surface with a furniture-polishing wax. Some finishers prefer to omit the polishing with wax.

350. Platinum-Walnut and Platinum-Mahogany Finishes.—These woeds and other open-pored woods that need a filler can be given platinum or bleached finishes by tlir> same process that is suggested for maple. The one unimportant difference is that walnut, mahogany, and similar woods having open pores need a paste filler. The wood filler should be applied after the coating of bleaching lacquer has dried.