[Woodcarver] Cypress Knee Finishing

[kpollak at comcast.net]

Hi Patti, 

I have only carved two cypress knee's I did the carving first, painted second, then just applied neutral shoe polish on it to seal it. After that all I have to do is add a little for shoe polish and buff it up again, and it looks just fine. Not sure if that will help you but just a thought. 

Karen (spit) 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patti Landmann" <lowvillecarver at yahoo.com> 
To: "[Woodcarver]" <woodcarver at carverscompanion.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:32:00 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: [Woodcarver] Cypress Knee Finishing 

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Anyone have time and/or the inclination to talk about finishing a cypress knee.   Have carved a Father Christmas figure.   Will want to paint it.   If I wet my finger and touch the face,  it become very dark so not sure that linseed oil and then paint is the way to go.   I use this method on basswood and the linseed oil leaves a nice natural skin tone but this will be too dark,  me thinks.   

Any way,  there I go thinking again....help or comments appreciated, as always. 

Patti 
  




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