Pine bed wood

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If one uses boiled linseed as the first coat and wipe it dry and let it sit overnight and then apply your urethane or whatever over it it will pop the colour up and will darken to a richer colour. The older varnishes were all at one time linseed based and this always darkened the wood.. new varnished are not contructed this way and does leave most wood to me looking anemic.
there is more of a problem of applying b/linseed to oak and walnut than there is to pine as it keeps bleeding back out of the pores where you can't wipe it dry that easily. one should allways take care of any rags used with finishing supplies. putting in water. a couple of others is to open the rags up and lay them seperately to dry and the dispose of them. What I always do and find that it works well is that I always use nitrile glove and when I take the gloves off I pull the gloves over the rags that I have used,1st one then the other and sometimes more so that they are well sealed from oxygen; no oxygen, no problem.
one of the finishes that was originally used on bed wood was a product called pine tar,. It was also used on the decks of boats esp in commercial applications eg.fishinhg vessels
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