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