Cheap Gold Varnish

The following is a cheap substitute for the expensive gold varnish used on ornamental tinware. Turpentine 1/2 gallon, asphaltum 1/2 gill, yellow aniline 2 ozs., umber 4 ozs., turpentine varnish 1 gal., and gamboge 1/2 lb. Mix and boil for ten hours.

How To Make Copal Varnish

Dissolve 1 pt. camphor, by weight, in 12 pts. ether, then add best copal resin (pulverized) 4 pts., and place in a well-stoppered bottle. When the copal has partly dissolved and has become swollen, add strong alcohol 4 pts., oil of turpentine 1/2 pt. Shake, and allow to stand for a few hours. This makes an excellent varnish.

Varnish For Maps

Take equal parts genuine Canada balsam and oil of turpentine; mix. Set the bottle in warm water, and agitate until the solution is perfect; then set in a warm place a week to settle, when pour otf the clear varnish for use. Before using, cover the map with a thin solution of pure glue.

Parisian Varnish

Dissolve 1 purl of shellac in 3 to 4 parts of alcohol of 92 per cent in a water-bath, and add cautiously-distilled water, until a curdy mass separates out, which is collected and pressed between linen The Liquid is filtered through paper, all the alcohol removed by distillation from the water-hath, and the resin removed and dried at 100° Centigrade, until it ceases to lose weight. Dissolve it in double its weight of alcohol of 96 per cent, and perfume with lavender oil.

Walnut Stain Tor Wood

Water 1 qt., washing soda 1-1/2 ozs, , Vandyke brown 2-1/2 ozs., bichromate of potash 1/4 oz. Boil for ten minutes, and apply with a brush, either hot or cold.

How To Improve Whitewash

Add a strong solution of sulphate of magnesia.

Red Stain For Wood

A permanent and handsome reddish color may be given to cherry or pear tree wood by a coat of a strong solution of permanganate of potash, left on a longer or shorter time according to the shade required.

Transfer Paper

A good transfer paper for copying monumental inscriptions and metallic patterns may be made by rubbing a mixture of black-lead and soap over the surface of common silver paper .

A Reflecting Drawing-Board

Temporarily Transparent Tracing Paper

This is made by dissolving castor-oil in absolute alcohol, and applying the liquid to the paper with a sponge. The alcohol speedily evaporates, leaving the paper dry. After the tracing is made, the paper is immersed in absolute alcohol, which removes the oil, restoring the sheet to its original opacity.

Tracing Paper, That Can Be Washed

This is prepared by first saturating writing-paper with benzine, and then immediately coating it lightly with a varnish composed of boiled bleached linseed-oil 20 parts, lead shavings 1 part, oxide of zinc 5 parts, Venice turpentine 1/2 part. Mix, boil for 8 hours, and, after cooling, add white gum-copal 5 parts, and gum-sandarac 1/2 part.