Hello all, I have a piece of nice quartersawn? silky oak with a pattern I had never seen before. It is what I think the Americans call lacewood pattern.
I installed it as a floating lid in a jarrah box. The box finish is done with a coat of shellac mixed 10:1 metho:shellac as a sanding sealer, and sanded back starting at 180 grit and going through the grits to 800. It was then finished with a few coats of Livos Kunos Sealing Oil #244 reduced to 50% with the Livos thinner, as recommended by Bungendore Gallery and AlexS.
The box came up great, but the lid looks like it has glitter on it when held at a particular angle to the light. It looks like a buildup of the oil on the darker brown lines on the timber, as seen below. It was hard to capture the effect with the camera, but the last two pics best indicate it, but the effect is all over the lid, not just in the top half as shown
It appears like the oil has not been rubbed off these lines, so I took a lot of trouble sanding it all back and redoing it from the start, same result, even though I rubbed each coat of oil vigorously with a soft dry cotton rag to get rid of any excess oil that was not absorbed by the timber after a few minutes.
The timber of the lid feels silky smooth to touch, but when lightly running a fingernail across it, the grain is felt quite easily.
I have never had this problem before with silky oak, but have never used this pattern either.
I would welcome any suggestions as to the cause of this problem, and any ideas on how to fix it please
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I installed it as a floating lid in a jarrah box. The box finish is done with a coat of shellac mixed 10:1 metho:shellac as a sanding sealer, and sanded back starting at 180 grit and going through the grits to 800. It was then finished with a few coats of Livos Kunos Sealing Oil #244 reduced to 50% with the Livos thinner, as recommended by Bungendore Gallery and AlexS.
The box came up great, but the lid looks like it has glitter on it when held at a particular angle to the light. It looks like a buildup of the oil on the darker brown lines on the timber, as seen below. It was hard to capture the effect with the camera, but the last two pics best indicate it, but the effect is all over the lid, not just in the top half as shown
It appears like the oil has not been rubbed off these lines, so I took a lot of trouble sanding it all back and redoing it from the start, same result, even though I rubbed each coat of oil vigorously with a soft dry cotton rag to get rid of any excess oil that was not absorbed by the timber after a few minutes.
The timber of the lid feels silky smooth to touch, but when lightly running a fingernail across it, the grain is felt quite easily.
I have never had this problem before with silky oak, but have never used this pattern either.
I would welcome any suggestions as to the cause of this problem, and any ideas on how to fix it please
Silky_Oak-1 (Large).jpgSilky_Oak-2 (Large).jpgSilky_Oak-3 (Large).jpgSilky_Oak-4 (Large).jpgSilky_Oak-11 (Large).jpgSilky_Oak-12 (Large).jpg
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