OK, I have a very vague recollection of shoe polish coming in handy for some kind of finishing thing. A concoction? Something using wax? A stain? Absolutely can’t remember. Seem to have some extra, cleaning house…..keep it or toss it? What’s the deal?
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Dark brown shoe polish can be used to age things, especially carvings or beat up wood. It is wiped on into all the nooks and crannys, then wiped off the high spots. It leaves a polish and a little dark in the hollows like decades of dirt.
I tend to use glaze with thalo brown and black arylic paint to do the same thing.
Also, whenever I make a faux old thing, I sign and date on the back or the bottom so no one will ever confuse my piece with something old and valuable.
Edited 6/11/2005 12:12 am ET by telemiketoo
Transparent does wonders on wood turnings. I use Kiwi.
HarryD
Are you, by chance, thinking of possible uses for the wax that's left behind, lonely & forlorn, when shellac is decanted?
-Jazzdogg-
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.
Nope, sorry Jazz. There's something about shoe polish, but it's buried deep in the neurons and not coming to the surface! We're talking "real" shoe polish, in a can, smells good.....you know.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>)
FG,
Go do something completely unrelated - e.g., take a shower, perform brain surgery - and it'll come to you!
If you're involved in something that makes it virtually impossible to stop what you're doing and write down your epiphany (performing a bris during an earthquake?), your chances of successful recall are doubled!
As you no doubt recall, this kind of memory retrieval is governed by the same law that says, "The heavier the item you intend to purchase, the greater the distance of the nearest available parking space from the store's entrance; conversely, if you are able to find a parking space right in front of the store, they are guaranteed not to have what you're looking for."
Perhaps this will take your mind off of the secondary, and possibly tertiary, uses for shoe polish: What would a chair look like if our knees bent the other way, and how would we sit down?
Have a great weekend!
-Jazzdogg-
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.
Jazz, the juxtaposition of brain surgery and a bris caught me a little off-guard!
I think it must be the wax-thing I was thinking about. Tinting wax perhaps. Just for fun, I'll try mixing a little in some Johnson's and try it out on some scrap.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>)
Shoe polish can be used as a tinted wax where ever you want a tinted wax.
It can be used where there is light colored sanding residue in the pores of large pored wood. It will color the residue that can't be removed.
Forest... I looked but I can not find it...
I think there was a post here or in the archives about using it on a antique chair? replica..
To make the wood darker? Geeee I forget!
EDIT: I think it was a chair because I was thinking of somebody sittin' down in a white dress at this fancy dinner party....
Edited 6/11/2005 11:22 am ET by Will George
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