So I am making a bed for a friend.. Cherry with Maple Panels.
I was going to use shellac, but my friend had some other furniture made and the Land Ark was used on it and thats what he wanted. so I used it.. looks awesome.. Now I need to put a satin top coat on and I am having some issues.
The Manufacture said to use this wax product called Howard Feed-N-Wax tried it on the back. it seems to just get absorbed, i put on about 6 coats and it wont buff out to any kind of shine at all.
Tried Black Bison wax, same thing, just seems it wont buff out.
the ingredients for the Land Ark is : Pure Tung Oil, SPecial Ages Linseed oil, Bees Wax, Orange Oil, Natural Pine Resins.
one other thing, I used a water based poly to finish the maple panels with satin finish.
So what can I use over the Oil finish to get a nice satin finish?
I read somewhere that oil finishes like this might just need more dry time, so I moved the bed pieces in to a bedroom so it can dry at an inside temp with a ceiling fan on it.
Any help would be appreciated
Chuck
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Never used Land Ark but based on your description of the product - I would say don't do any more finishing. Let it thoroughly dry and find a wax that can be buffed up like minwax.
SA
yeah I had the panels finished already before I had started to finish the rest. thats the one thing driving me to find a satin finish. so it matches the panels. had I known he wanted me to use this prior I would have used the oil on them as well. the panels are a figure maple ply so refinishing them isnt an option.
The marketing of the Land Ark materials seems to leave out mentioning the snake oil component. About the only finish you could durably apply over it would be shellac, which pretty much adheres to anything, assuming that the version you used contains wax.. But that's not going to get you the satin looki you desire.
I'm not sure why you have ruled out refinishing the panels. True you cannot safely sand veneered panels. But you shouldn't sand off old finish anyway, even over solid wood. You could remove the waterborne finish with stripper, taking care to rinse well with the recommended solvents. If you use nothing more abrasive than synthetic steel wood, and are reasonably gentle with that, you shouldn't damage the plywood.
I'm not really sure that you should be thinking about refinishing the panels, I'd be looking to use the stripper to remove the :Land Ark junk. For an in the wood oil finish, just barely satin in sheen, I'd use a mix of oil and varnish (ordinary
BLO will work fine,)
as a follow up, I just wanted to let you know what became of this.
I talked to the manufacturer about it again.. she said try saiding it with 600 grit dry paper. so I did that, with in 15 secs the paper was completely gummed up.. so I grabbed a scraper and took a light pass.. the amount of what I assume was beeswax that came up was quiet rediculous. so I went and bout some wax remover, rubbed that on then scrapped it till the wood looked try, then applied wax of my choosing and now it looks really nice, I will postr pics when its done.
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