FRENCH POLISH

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1681, 18 May 1904, Page 25

FRENCH POLISH

In these days when paint for furniture has gone out a good deal, and polish come in—polish which is so easily damaged—it may be Avell to know you can restore French polish that has got out of order. For this purpose you will want some linseed oil, some French polish, and some woollen rags and old linen. The process ought to be done in a Avarm room, where there is little draught: First take a piece of woollen rag and roll it up into a ball, soak this with the polish, and then cover it with a piece of old linen, strained tightly over it. This is your pad. It should be held in the fingers of the right hand in such a manner as to draw it tight and leave a very smooth surface to work with. The wood you wish to treat should be rubbed thoroughly smooth with sandpaper and wiped free of grit and dust. Now pour a little of the oil in a cup, and into another cup a little of the polish. Apply a drop or tAvo of oil to the wood, and the same of the polish, and rub them in with your pad, using a free, even stroke, but not much pressure; very little, in faot, is necessary. Go on dropping both liquids and rubbing them in until every pieoe of the wood receives an equal amount of polish, and continue thid till the grain is filled up and a good and uniform polish appears.