French Polish Part III Filling the Pores

This covers the traditional method of filling in the pores with pumice as the abrasive. The method is to use alcohol and pumice to work up a slurry of wood dust that mixes with some of the shellac left from the wash coats and gets driven into the pores. This is a time consuming operation but the final finish will be completely flat and not show the dimples that an unfilled piece would have.

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Very interesting video. Very useful. One thing, I don't see how you can prevent pumice from mixing with the sawdust and shellac -- so aren't you getting pumice into the wood fiber also? The second method seems intuitive more attractive to me. But what do I know?