Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1887 — Staining Woods. [ARTICLE]

Staining Woods.

Rosewood. —Bail eight ounces of logwood in three pints of water ujkt3 reduced to half; apply it boiling hot twe or three times, letting it dry each tame. Put in the streaks with a earners has: brush dipped hi a solution of eoppeaas and verdigris in a decoction of logwood Light Mahouany. —Brush over Hie surface with diluted nitrous acidL and when dry apply with a soft brush the following: Four ounces of dragon’s blood, one ounce of carbonate of soda, three pints of alcohol. Let it stand in a warm place, shake it frequently and then strain. To Stain Musical Instruments. — Boil one pound of ground Brazil wood in three quarts of water for an hour; strain it, then add half an ounce of cochineal; boil a half hour longer. This makes a crimson stain. Ebony. Wash the wood several times with a solution of aulphaffe of iron; lot it dry, then apply a hot decoction of logwood and nutgails. wfan dry wipe X; with a wot sponge; u when dry again polish it with linseei ed. Purple, — Boil a pound of chip logwood in three quarts of water for dh hour; then add four ounces at ata*k BiiWE.—Boil four parte of ahnn WMk ty-fire paths of water. Bx a mother-in-law—" You otaa deceive your guileless little wife, young Bum, put her father’s wife—sever,”