With this essential guide to professional finishing techniques, learn to enhance the natural beauty of the wood's grain, texture and surface marking. Find out the best ways to protect the wood from a variety of things that can destroy, damage or disfigure it. From sanding, staining, bleaching, and preparing the surface, to wax and oil polishing, French polishing, varnishing, and painted and decorative finishes, you'll choose a finish to suit your project. ."..very informative...should be in your library...."-- "Carver's News

. 192 pages (72 in color), 100 b/w illus., 8 1/4 x 10 7/8.