This section is from the book "Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics", by Paul N. Hasluck. Also available from Amazon: Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics.
For the groundwork, give a coating of white lead 2 lb., Oxford ochre 2oz., Venetian red 2oz., burnt umber loz., thinned with equal parts of turps and boiled oil. Damp the work thirty-six hours afterwards with water 7 parts, beer 1 part, then brush it over with weak beer, burnt sienna, and a little Vandyke brown, and, when dry, mottle it with a large mottler. Now over-grain with a hog-hair over-grainer dipped into a thin mixture of vandyke brown and weak beer; use it very freely, and soften upwards only. While this is wet, the dark veins and curls should be put in with an over-grainer, using drop black thinned with weak beer. Soften in all directions. Glaze or shade with drop black and a little indigo. Do not overcrowd the work. When dry, it is ready for varnishing. Take as a pattern for the graining some article of furniture in walnut, such as the case of a piano.
 
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