Day 4 - Burnishing Day

Burnishing - or French Polishing - is where you gently sand back the shellac with really soft sandpaper once, then get a rubber (which is a piece of fabric made into a ball and has a dab of metho on it and olive oil), then you get some watered down shellac and softly rub it into the wood in small circles. You sand it once only and put rub in the circles for around 4 - 5 coats. It's a boring and labour-intensive process - and hurts your arm and hands and wrists - but the end product is well worth the time and pain.

Mum helped me out with this part as she did this at community college some years back and showed me how to get it so the shellac filled in the grain - as it's supposed to.

I took over some home-made pumpkin, sweet potato and carrot soup with garlic! I like my soup nice and chunky and thick... and it was well worth it as today was cold and windy. :D

[wendy frost]

A nice shot of your mum.Getting there nicely with the box a lot of work but I am sure worth it in the end

[bkb in the city]

Great collage to show off the process

[Rick Schies]

It is looking really nice, and I see you put your Mom to work. Hi Lois

[Lynda Parker]

@wendyfrost @bkbinthecity @digitalrn Thank you all for your lovely comments. Actually, Rick, Mum volunteered her time because Dad and I were beginning to fight over what the next step was... and I let her to stop him from taking over from my project. I didn't want to cause a fight, and didn't want him to get snotty about it. :)