Brad Ridgway
02-16-2008, 8:43 PM
I'm about to make some jigs and wondering what to finish in. I live in florida and humudity flutuation and higher temps in the shop are issues. Tolpin recommends shellac and i read a few external links from google all offerings pros for BLO, shellac and plain waxed. Justification for the latter two centered around the finishes strengths in repelling moisture...
Anyway i'm not interested in showing these off for their perfect gloss, but i want them to be durable, have as little friction as possible so they slide, and avoid dimentions changes/distortion over the long hall...
thx in advance...
ps. I've been searching this forum and having some trouble finding info on this topic. seems like BLO / Jigs are too common and my other searches (finishing jigs / etc) are not giving me good results - i know with thosands of post i am asking something discussed before, but i have tried... If this is answered elsewhere (i.e. i found a post that mentioned another where Jim had recommended BLO for jigs over shellac but i could not for the life of me find that original).
Anyway i'm not interested in showing these off for their perfect gloss, but i want them to be durable, have as little friction as possible so they slide, and avoid dimentions changes/distortion over the long hall...
thx in advance...
ps. I've been searching this forum and having some trouble finding info on this topic. seems like BLO / Jigs are too common and my other searches (finishing jigs / etc) are not giving me good results - i know with thosands of post i am asking something discussed before, but i have tried... If this is answered elsewhere (i.e. i found a post that mentioned another where Jim had recommended BLO for jigs over shellac but i could not for the life of me find that original).