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Adhesives, Paints, and Varnishes: Chestnut
Chestnut, red, black, and yellow.
Walnut, white lead and burnt umber. Vein with the same, and touch the deepest spots with black.
Light willow green, white lead and verdigris.
Pea green, white lead and chrome green.
Grass green, yellow ocher and verdigris.
Olive, yellow ocher, blue, black, and white. Vein with burnt umber.
Bronze green, chrome green, black, and yellow.
Orange, yellow and red.
Brick color, red lead, yellow ocher, and white lead.
Brown, vermilion, black, and a little yellow.
Chocolate, raw umber, red, and black.
Violet, red lead, Prussian blue, and white lead.
Purple, same as violet, with more red and white.
Gold, white lead, stone ocher, and red lead.
Carnation, lake and pink.
Timber color, spruce ocher, white lead, and a little umber.
Chestnut color, red ocher, yellow ocher, and black.
Limestone, white lead, yellow ocher, lampblack, and red lead.
Freestone, red lead, lampblack, yellow ocher, and white lead. Paint for Canvas. - Mix with boiled oil 24 pounds of ocher and 4 pounds of lampblack. Add 1 pound of soap dissolved in 2 pounds of water. Mix and apply with a paint brush two coats at intervals of 2 or 3 days.
Allow to dry, and add a finishing coat of varnish formed of lampblack ground and thinned with boiled oil.
ADHESIVES, PAINTS, AND VARNISHES VARNISHING Before varnishing, the surface should first be "flatted" either by mixing the last coat of paint with turpentine or by rubbing it down with a piece of felt moistened and dipped in pumice stone. For a level surface, tack the felt on a block of wood, or use thick woolen cloth or chamois tacked to a block of wood, or a smooth piece of pumice stone with water. Let dry and brush off the surface to remove the dust. Take care that the air is not full of dust when the varnish is applied.
For a fine quality of work, two to six coats may be spread on, one after the other. Do not lift too much varnish on the brush, but rather take up a small quantity, spread it on finely, and rub out well. Rub down the next to the last coat until the gloss is "flatted," and let the last be a flowing coat, heavy enough to flow out evenly of itself. For a cheaper grade of work, two or three coats are sufficient, the last coat being flowed on. To finish varnish, rub down with very finely pulverized pumice stone, and wash off with clear water. Afterwards rub down with rotten stone and sweet oil, applied by means of the bare hands. Finally wipe and polish with chamois.
Killing Knots. - Use for this purpose only the best quality of pure grain alcohol orange shellac varnish or "knot killer." Apply over this with a brush equal parts of red and white lead ground with water, and mixed with hot glue size at the rate of 4 ounces of glue to a gallon of water. Apply before it cools. And for fine work, follow with a second coat of 3 parts of white lead ground in oil, and 1 part of red lead or litharge.
Or, for cabinetwork, cover the knot with an oil size and lay over it silver or gold leaf.
Or hold a hot iron against it until the pitch stews out so that it can be scraped off. Afterwards cover with gold or silver leaf.