Increasing demand for flawless glass smooth finishes on woods with open pores like oaks, ashes, and mahoganies presents a challenge for finishers. My first experience with this came a few decades ago ...

Various types of varnish and lacquer have been around at least since the time of the ancient Egyptians, so it’s fair to suppose that craftspeople through the ages have mixed the same natural hardening ...

The natural, organic look and feel that make wood such a popular material to work with also tend to attract minor imperfections like nail holes, gaps, scratches, and splits. Luckily, a good wood ...

One of the benefits of using wood to build furniture, structures, and other objects is its ability to be fastened together using materials like screws, nails, and glue, and techniques like dovetailing ...

You may need nothing more than a thorough wipe-down, a few touch-ups with stain, and a bit of wax to restore the original luster. To revive an old, battered desk, we had to go through all four steps ...

I'm building a box, and I am going to paint it black. The top and bottom of the box were made out of oak. <BR><BR>i am messing with different ways to finish it with some spare pieces I have. I tried ...

Parquet looks heroic in estate photos, less so in real life. Chairs scrape. Dogs skid. A friend pops by in stilettos and leaves a comet trail by the sofa. We’ve all had that moment when the first ...

Sooner or later, everyone who tinkers with guns is going to try his hand at refinishing a stock. “Hand” is the operative word here, because there’s nothing quite like a hand-rubbed oil finish to bring ...