[Woodcarver] Water/alcohol 50/50 mixture

[Duane MacEwen]

I can never remember which alcohol to use in the 50/50 mixture.  I
definitely know it is not your regular rubbing alcohol because rubbing
alcohol has additives which will leave an oily residue as mentioned
below in Dave Tygarts message.

Duane

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I use alcohol and a toothbrush to clean up a carving prior to finishing
it.
You have to wipe it off before it evaporates or you've just put a skin

of oil all over the carving but if you wipe quickly it does get the 
basswood (at least) nice and white.  It will raise the grain a bit.
It also takes off acrylic paint nicely.<G>
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Regards from Iowa,

Dave Tygart & WT Morgan (he has discovered he is no kind of a painter)
"The mile is theirs by birthright" - Dick Riker
What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?


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