Fuming a Finish - Cool but Dangerous!
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I've enjoyed building Arts & Crafts furniture for a number of years. The look of the quarter-sawn oak after finishing has always been a strong selling point - a common approach is a historical finishing process called fuming. In a nutshell, the idea is to expose the finished piece of furniture to the fumes of ammonia. The tannins in the wood react to the fumes and darken. Pretty cool. But […]The post Fuming a Finish - Cool but Dangerous! appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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