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
>
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>    Scott Grandstaff
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