How To Make Wood Carvings Shine

Not on your carving take a piece of wood make few cuts in it in different directions and different depth and stainpaint it.

How to make wood carvings shine. For wax-polishing carved work benzine wax is preferred to turpentine wax because it does not clog the tine lines and notches so much. Apply additional polish to the brush as need. Apply the shoe polish not too generously otherwise it will take you longer to buff it all over the piece with the paint brush.

Take your 60-grit sandpaper and sand down all the carvings surfaces by hand. You have put a lot of work into a wood carving. Dab a small amount of beeswax or linseed walnut or tung oil onto a clean cloth and rub it over the completed ring inside and out.

I understand that you are all excited when the carving is done and you want to have it finished and show it to everyone but PLEASE take time to experiment before you ruin it with bad paint or stain. An antique shade on oak carvings is obtained by staining with umber which has been boiled in water with a little potash. After about 30 seconds of massaging the solution into the finish use a soft cloth to wipe and buff the area dry.

Wood stained in this manner is not polished but it receives a covering of limpid varnish. Wipe the wood thoroughly until it is clean. Clean your wood sculpture with caution if the piece has not been sealed.

Leave it to rest for about half an hour or come back to it after youve done anything else you need to do you cannot over-rest it. Dip a sponge into the solution squeeze out the excess and apply a coat to a small section of the stained wood. Step 3 Once a year move your carving to a flat covered surface clean it with your dry brush and apply two coats of polyurethane spray.

Wipe it onto the surface to fill in any pores in the wood. Spray the tips of your brush with a nonwax furniture polish and brush the polish onto your wood carving. Clean visible dirtiness with a damp cloth.