Oil For Graining Oak

Grind Vandyke brown in turpentine, add as much gold-size as will set, and as much soft soap as will make it stand the comb. Should it set too quickly, add a little boiled oil. Put a teaspoonful of gold-size to half a pint of turpentine, and as much soap as will lie on a twenty-five cent piece, then take a little soda mixed with water and take out the veins.

How To Prepare The Ground For Oak Rollers

Stain your white lead with raw sienna and red lead, or with chrome yellow and Venetian red; thin it with oil and turps, and strain for use. When the ground work is dry, grind in beer, Vandyke brown, whiting and a little burnt sienna, for the graining color; or you may use raw sienna with a little whiting, umbers, etc.

How To Imitate Old Oak

To make an exceedingly rich color for the imitation of old oak, the ground is a composition of stone ochre or orange chrome and burnt sienna; the graining color is burnt umber or Vandyke brown, to darken it a little. Observe that the above colors must be used whether the imitation is in oil or distemper. When dry, varnish.

How To Imitate Old Oak, In Oil

(bind Vandyke and whiting in turpentine, add a bit of common soap to make it stand the comb, and thin it with boiled oil.

How To Imitate Pollard Oak

The ground color is prepared with a mixture of chrome yellow, vermilion and white lead, to a rich light buff. The graining colors are Vandyke brown and small portions of raw and burnt sienna and lake ground in ale or beer. Fill a large tool with color, spread over the surface to be grained, and soften with the badger-hair brush. Take a moistened sponge between the thumb and linger, and dapple round and round in kind of knobs, then soften very lightly; then draw a softener from one set of knobs to the other while wet, to form a multiplicity of grains, and finish the knots with a hair pencil, in some places in thicker clusters than others. When dry put the top grain on in a variety of directions, and varnish with turps and gold-size; then glaze up with Vandyke and strong ale. To finish, varnish with copal.

How To Imitate Mottled Mahogany

The ground is prepared with the best English Venetian red, red lead, and a small portion of white lead. The graining colors are burnt sienna, ground in ale, with a small portion of Vandyke brown, sufficient to take away the fiery appearance of the sienna. Cover the surface to be grained, soften with the badger-hair brush, and while wet take a mottling-rollor and go over the lights a second time, in order to give a variety of shade, then blend the whole of the work with the badger softener. Put the top grain on with the same color. When dry, varnish.