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250196 scott grandstaff <scottg@s...> 2014‑08‑27 Just an old fork
Warning long meandering story.


Well I am still on restricted duty. I have a skin graft, on my face. Its 
healing real nice. No complaints. But I was going out of my mind not 
being able to do anything.
  So one day I called the surgeons head nurse.

  I said "Debbie, just between you n me, what can I really get away with 
here? I got grass up to my butt and my house is dirty and I need to 
stack firewood in the worst way.  I am going to have a hard winter if 
the weather gets heavy"

       She says, ever so politely,  "Oh you are getting antzy???"

  "WELL SUCK IT UP BOZO. SIT DOWN AND WAIT IT OUT. HOW MANY FACES YOU 
GOT, HUH?"

   you got to love a nurse like this

   A few days ago I was washing dishes  (I have recently graduated to 
head housewife) and I see my old barbecue fork, laying there in the drawer.
  Its been a real good fork for a lot of years now.
   But considering barbecue duty and all......

   I don't usually feed 160 people at a time. I do have a long gangly 
fork I made for those occasions.
  But I put together this little fork for regular mom n pop, well, just 
pop now,......   cooking. Its just big enough without being too big.
  I would prefer to limit scorched flesh, my own that is.  But I need to 
store the thing between uses.

     I made it years ago. I don't remember.  Its apple wood with just a 
trace of colorful spalt to it, and brass and stainless.  The brass was 
cut on my lathe. Since I come from a woodworking background that has 
influence on the style, as opposed to a machinist style. More casual in 
other words.
  The stainless was a heavy forged stainless fork I just found 
someplace. It sure didn't look like this when I met it. Heh  A big 
clunky ugly thing.  But it had plenty of metal to work over, so I 
redesigned it.

     Its been a good fork. But it was looking pretty tired in my kitchen 
drawer.
   So I decided to revisit the poor old thing.


   No finish treatment will hold forever with use, heat and especially 
scrubbing cycles. Things you wash often are in a different category.
   I usually just web scrub wooden handles I use for culinary purposes. 
I have found that is usually the best. Just wet scrub the handle hard as 
if it were tarnishing silver, and dry it immediately. No finish of any 
kind. Ebony, rosewood, many other woods too, respond beautiful to this.

  My favorite for this, is a small cut off piece, of a wore out red 3M 
nylon pad.
This is the one with fine abrasive in it. But when they get all wore out 
and soft, what little abrasive they have left is all rounded and hardly 
cuts at all anymore.
  I can scrub the schmutz and tarnish off the metal, and buff up the 
unfinished handle at the same time. Tiny drop of soap on a wet scrap, 
and go at it.
  Dry well, instantly afterward.

  But the apple wanted to gray up with the standard scrubbing.

  I decided to try a water resistant finish and see how long that lasts.
  I know it won't last forever, but having the colorful apple a little 
longer would be nice.

  I rubbed it down to fresh wood, and then gave it a generous dose of 
Galoot mix #2
   This is equal parts paint thinner, high solids UV resistant 
polyurethane (oil, not water), and boiled linseed oil.

  Take a tiny rag and give it as much as it will take. Generous soaked 
wiping, many many times in rapid succession.  Then lightly drag the rag 
end to end in full strokes to clean up the surface.
   Let dry overnight and do it again next day.

   I next left it outside in the heat, (its august in Camp) but in the 
shade of the east side of my house, for 2 days.
  Then rubbed it down hard with super fine steel wool, followed by 
buffed on hard carnuba wax.

   We'll see how long it lasts. But I did at least get to see it look 
good again.
  If only for a little while.

  
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/forkb.jpg
ht
tp://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/forka.jpg

  Sometimes the things you find in your own junk...........
      yours Scott

-- 
*******************************
    Scott Grandstaff
    Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca  96039
    scottg@s...
    http://www.snowcrest.n
et/kitty/sgrandstaff/
    http://www.snowcr
est.net/kitty/hpages/index.html



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250197 Gary Maze <emmasdaddy45@g...> 2014‑08‑27 Re: Just an old fork
OK Scott,

If no one else will I'll bite.

snip
 I rubbed it down to fresh wood, and then gave it a generous dose of Galoot
mix #2
  This is equal parts paint thinner, high solids UV resistant polyurethane
(oil, not water), and boiled linseed oil.
unsnip

What is Galoot mix #1?

Gary Maze
Hoping for a break in the evening rain pattern of the last week


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:07 PM, scott grandstaff 
wrote:

>  Warning long meandering story.
>
>
> Well I am still on restricted duty. I have a skin graft, on my face. Its
> healing real nice. No complaints. But I was going out of my mind not being
> able to do anything.
>  So one day I called the surgeons head nurse.
>
>  I said "Debbie, just between you n me, what can I really get away with
> here? I got grass up to my butt and my house is dirty and I need to stack
> firewood in the worst way.  I am going to have a hard winter if the weather
> gets heavy"
>
>       She says, ever so politely,  "Oh you are getting antzy???"
>
>  "WELL SUCK IT UP BOZO. SIT DOWN AND WAIT IT OUT. HOW MANY FACES YOU GOT,
> HUH?"
>
>   you got to love a nurse like this
>
>   A few days ago I was washing dishes  (I have recently graduated to head
> housewife) and I see my old barbecue fork, laying there in the drawer.
>  Its been a real good fork for a lot of years now.
>   But considering barbecue duty and all......
>
>   I don't usually feed 160 people at a time. I do have a long gangly fork
> I made for those occasions.
>  But I put together this little fork for regular mom n pop, well, just pop
> now,......   cooking. Its just big enough without being too big.
>  I would prefer to limit scorched flesh, my own that is.  But I need to
> store the thing between uses.
>
>     I made it years ago. I don't remember.  Its apple wood with just a
> trace of colorful spalt to it, and brass and stainless.  The brass was cut
> on my lathe. Since I come from a woodworking background that has influence
> on the style, as opposed to a machinist style. More casual in other words.
>  The stainless was a heavy forged stainless fork I just found someplace.
> It sure didn't look like this when I met it. Heh  A big clunky ugly thing.
> But it had plenty of metal to work over, so I redesigned it.
>
>     Its been a good fork. But it was looking pretty tired in my kitchen
> drawer.
>   So I decided to revisit the poor old thing.
>
>
>   No finish treatment will hold forever with use, heat and especially
> scrubbing cycles. Things you wash often are in a different category.
>   I usually just web scrub wooden handles I use for culinary purposes. I
> have found that is usually the best. Just wet scrub the handle hard as if
> it were tarnishing silver, and dry it immediately. No finish of any kind.
> Ebony, rosewood, many other woods too, respond beautiful to this.
>
>  My favorite for this, is a small cut off piece, of a wore out red 3M
> nylon pad.
> This is the one with fine abrasive in it. But when they get all wore out
> and soft, what little abrasive they have left is all rounded and hardly
> cuts at all anymore.
>  I can scrub the schmutz and tarnish off the metal, and buff up the
> unfinished handle at the same time. Tiny drop of soap on a wet scrap, and
> go at it.
>  Dry well, instantly afterward.
>
>  But the apple wanted to gray up with the standard scrubbing.
>
>  I decided to try a water resistant finish and see how long that lasts.
>  I know it won't last forever, but having the colorful apple a little
> longer would be nice.
>
>  I rubbed it down to fresh wood, and then gave it a generous dose of
> Galoot mix #2
>   This is equal parts paint thinner, high solids UV resistant polyurethane
> (oil, not water), and boiled linseed oil.
>
>  Take a tiny rag and give it as much as it will take. Generous soaked
> wiping, many many times in rapid succession.  Then lightly drag the rag end
> to end in full strokes to clean up the surface.
>   Let dry overnight and do it again next day.
>
>   I next left it outside in the heat, (its august in Camp) but in the
> shade of the east side of my house, for 2 days.
>  Then rubbed it down hard with super fine steel wool, followed by buffed
> on hard carnuba wax.
>
>   We'll see how long it lasts. But I did at least get to see it look good
> again.
>  If only for a little while.
>
>  http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/forkb.jpg"
>http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/forkb.jpg
> 
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/forka.jpg
>
>  Sometimes the things you find in your own junk...........
>      yours Scott
>
> --
> *******************************
>    Scott Grandstaff
>    Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca  96039
>    scottg@s...
>    http://www.snowcrest.
net/kitty/sgrandstaff/
>    http://www.snowc
rest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html
>
>
>
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250198 Christopher Swingley <cswingle@s...> 2014‑08‑27 Re: Just an old fork
Gary,

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Gary Maze  wrote:
>   This is equal parts paint thinner, high solids UV resistant polyurethane
> (oil, not water), and boiled linseed oil.
> unsnip
>
> What is Galoot mix #1?

I'm guessing it'd be turps / varnish / boiled linseed oil (the same
general idea, but with the feeling you're using slightly more
historical ingredients).

Cheers,

Chris
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Fairbanks, Alaska
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250200 "Stager, Scott P." <StagerS@m...> 2014‑08‑27 Re: Just an old fork
On Aug 27, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Christopher Swingley  wrote:

> Gary,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Gary Maze  wrote:
>>  This is equal parts paint thinner, high solids UV resistant polyurethane
>> (oil, not water), and boiled linseed oil.
>> unsnip
>> 
>> What is Galoot mix #1?
> 
> I'm guessing it'd be turps / varnish / boiled linseed oil (the same
> general idea, but with the feeling you're using slightly more
> historical ingredients).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> -- 

Well since we have started the guessing game, I'll guess turps (or thinner) /
Beeswax / BLO.

Or maybe that's Tony's #1?

--Scott------------------------------------------------------------------------
250201 Anthony Seo <tonyseo@p...> 2014‑08‑27 Re: Just an old fork
At 03:03 PM 8/27/2014, Stager, Scott P. wrote:

>Well since we have started the guessing game, I'll guess turps (or 
>thinner) / Beeswax / BLO.
>
>Or maybe that's Tony's #1?

That's Tony's one and only save for when the situation calls for 
something shiny...

Tony (matter of fact, going to be mixing up a fresh batch in a few....)



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250203 scott grandstaff <scottg@s...> 2014‑08‑27 Re: Just an old fork
Well since we have started the guessing game, I'll guess turps (or 
thinner) / Beeswax / BLO.
> That's Tony's one and only save for when the situation calls for 
> something shiny...

Man I can't believe anyone needs to explain this, eh Ton?

   I mean, I have a bad memory.........   But holy mackerel!
   Galoot's sauce of life? Anybody needs to re-explain this?
  I use it on everything too, and for practically a generation now.
       (Except in special circumstances, like the fork)

  Oh course if the archives were alive.,
If the archives ever came back into full focus..........
    yours Scott


> ******************************* Scott Grandstaff Box 409 Happy Camp, 
> Ca 96039 scottg@s... 
> http://www.snowcrest.net
/kitty/sgrandstaff/
> http://www.snowcres
t.net/kitty/hpages/index.html


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