Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Long time no blog...

I've been busier than a one-armed paper hanger -- or something like that. I appreciate the requests/comments, but haven't had time to respond.

As for wood stabilizers, I do use a stabilizer occasionally, but usually just try to get dry wood to start with. The stabilizer I use, resolute, seems allot like deck sealer to me, but what do I know? I've been using it on my spalted maple brushes, but that's about it. The resinol90c probably works better at adding some backbone to softer woods, but my research in to it indicated that it was not available in smaller quantities that I would find useful, and doesn't have a long enough shelf life once it is opened to make large quantities worthwhile. And, it's complicated stuff for the time I can put into it right now. I'll add the link to resolute in a bit.

CA is a much more complicated question, but I will answer it when I get a chance. The bottom line is, it has a mind of its own, and responds differently depending on the wood, temperature, humidity, moon phase, etc.

Gotta jump on a plane... I'll get back with more later. Sorry.

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