[MR] About wood finishing

[Ron Osceola]

My Dad was a master furniture finisher and worked for years restoring
beautiful antiques.  Murphy's oil Soap is indeed a great place to start as
it cleans the wood without leaving behind anything that is bad for the wood.
Dad would follow this up with a "treatment" he made from very pure bees wax
mixed with turpentine, he would mix the two together until it became a thick
liquid and then he would rub it into the surface of the wood.  I have
occasionally seen him warm the mixture, although with the turpentine being
as flammable as it is, I never thought this to be a very safe practice. This
treatment does give a deep inner glow to the wood and makes it shine (a
slight semi-gloss kind of shine)


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Love and Blessings,
Ron Osceola, CH

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