I've always loved old houses and admired those who try to save them by keeping their appearance, if not identical, at least as close as possible to the original. I know from experience that it is very hard to maintain an old house and I can only imagine how hard it must be to try to bring...
Many wood varnishers have come across the terms "thixotropic", "thixotropic" or simply "thixo", referring to a property of varnish. But what does this "tixo" mean and when do we need a varnish with such a property? If we look...
The other day, a few atypical wood carvings caught my attention, which immediately made me think of other materials, paper, textile, metal. The pieces were a mixture of spirals, curves, twists that you can hardly imagine in wood, but which are very specific to other...
The varnish application methods recommended in the product datasheets reminded me of an application method that is unfairly treated with less confidence than other application methods. This is pouring, a method much used in the past and much less so now, with...
I ended last week's article on comparing hardwood and softwood by saying that hardwood species are hard to differentiate, but not impossible, and that I would be back with a comparison between fir and spruce. That time has come, and...
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