Re: [Harp-L] Salad Bowl finish can now kiss my bluegrass

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dries hard. And awesome. I sanded down a Chromatic DeLuxe, actually for a job interview with a national woodworking  magazine, to bare pearwood and rounded the corners, I got a hard, glossy finish around coat number 8. These were thin coats. You can sand pearwood to 220 grit, anything finer and you burnish the wood and it won't stain right, then put a red mahogany stain on the pearwood and follow that up with butcher's block and the chromatic looks absolutely sweet. 
I got the Butcher's Block at Lowes, I can't remember who make it, it was Corbin... Corbet, something like that. Got it at Lowe's. I generally use General Finish finishes, but it was an any port in a storm situation. 
Milk paint rules as much as nails. 
The interview took more than three and half hours and they bought me lunch at a nice restaurant and they've got me designing some projects to show. I take that as a good sign... I hope it is, cause it is one of the two awesomest jobs in the world.  
Dave
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Dave Payne SR. 
Elk River Harmonicas
www.elkriverharmonicas.com 

----- Original Message ----
From: Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:44:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Salad Bowl finish can now kiss my bluegrass

Milk paint? Something to do with 'casein' I would think; something that comes from milk and has been used in adhesives among other things and was used as an early form of plastic. Buttons on clothing used to be made of the stuff. Does butcher' block oil dry or remain oily?
RD

>>> David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 24/07/2008 11:27 >>>
Hey y'all, just want to say, salad bowl finish can kiss my bluegrass. It was always tough getting a good looking finish with it, but that problem is gone forever. I'm a butcher-block oil man now. There is no comparison to its awesomeness. Just wipe on.smooth finish without sanding.
Also, discovered another awesome thing. Milk paint. It's the old paint they used to use back in the 1800s, folks used to make it from lime and milk and pigment back in the day. I tell you, it's awesome to paint the outside of a harp comb. Finishes nicely, sticks like concrete... I think it works on the same principle as concrete. If you paint with the reedplates on, you have to sand it off the plate where it meets the comb, it sticks to that. What's even more awesome is it comes as a powder and you mix it up. That means, I can buy a bag of powder and mix up only the minute quanitities I need for harps and it doesn't set up in the can, cause there ain't any can. 

I got my milk paint at woodcraft. Butcher's block is more widely available. 
Dave
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Dave Payne Sr. 
Elk River Harmonicas
www.elkriverharmonicas.com 
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