I have a few garden shovels, hula hoes, rakes, etc. that needed s finish.. I
was down to bare wood..  I inherited some of these from my Father. FIL.,
etc.  so they are old gardening tools..

Used a bit of sandpaper... 

 

Had an open can of Zinsser's amber shellac.. And some cosmetic pads ( which
I use for application, when it is not fine furniture)

 

The handles look like oak to me or maybe they are ash, or  some other open
grained darkish wood ...hickory maybe?

 

Anyway, padded on a few coats, and the wood is simply beautiful...   MUCH
better than they looked a week ago..

 

Amazing the purposes you can put shellac to..

 

Frank Filippone

Red735i@v...