Sorry, asking a realy dumb question here…
I am finishing a small hall table made from mahognay. It has a small drawer. The draw front like the piece is mahognay and has half blind dovetails, the draw sides and back are ash. (last time I use ash I like birch better) I plan on simply using clear or amber shellac for the drawer parts BUT plan to stain the mahogany another color . How do I finish the SIDES of the drawer so that the sheallac does not goof up the mahogany where the haklf blind dovetails are. I want the dovetails side of the drawer front to look like the piece.
Do I simply apply the shellac with a tiny brush on the tails and then with a use another tiny brush to apply the finish to the tails on the drawer front?
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spitfire,
This question came up about a month ago and I think the answer was to use the guage line as a line of demarcation. So it would be shellac up to the base of the tails and pins and stain actually on the dovetails, etc.
thanks, that'll work. gee whiz I felt crazyt asking that question!!:-)
Yep BG, that's what I said. But it really needs to be a cutting gauge that's used to mark the shoulders leaving clean fibre severance across the grain.
If an ordinary (pin point) marking gauge is used which leaves torn fibres the demarcation can end up blurred, or even run unattractively. Slainte.RJFurniture
Sgian,
Do I get at least partial credit?...deductions for lack of foot note and the knife aspect for the shoulder...
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