Author: Alvah Horton Sabin

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-19

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9780331449358

Excerpt from The Industrial and Artistic Technology of Paint and Varnish IN the twelve years which have passed since the first publica tion of this work, certain changes have come about which seem to make a new edition desirable. The most important is the use of tung-oil in varnish-making, which has entirely changed the character of cheap and medium-priced products. Varnishes con taining it dry with a rapidity and hardness unknown before, which lessens the time needed for finishing work; and its remarkable water-resisting quality makes rosin-varnishes more durable and better in every way. But surfaces thus finished become hard and crack, the general appearance of furniture and of railway passenger coaches and medium-priced carriages of every sor't throughout the country has grown worse rather than better during the last ten years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.