All,
I’ve read here many times that burnishing the wood can cause unequal stain take up and cause blotching. I’m interpreting burnishing as leaving the wood surface shiny…like it gets if you put wood chips against a piece of spinning stock on a lathe. Therefore I usually avoid this shininess if I’m planing to use any stain.
Recently, however, I watched the Brian Boggs video(on here) and he worked a scraper so that the entire piece was nice and shiny…and I’m wondering if maybe my definition is correct? thanks
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A sharp scraper, or finely set plane, leaves a shiny surface, but it is still an open pored surface since the surface was "sliced" off, not rubbed down, as in burnishing. That should still take a stain nicely.
Steve,
Thanks.
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