Wood graining tools - vintage tools and craft
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four.cycle
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cool.
I was wondering what I was going to see when I clicked on this thread.
Don't know if it's the same now, but when I went through the Mormon Tabernacle in SLC (quite a few years ago) the wood grain on all the pews and all of the wood trim was painted on so it all looked like oak. One guy did all of it. Started at one end, worked his way to the other. Took him all year to do it, and then he'd have to start all over. Job security.
A lost art, from what I understand.
I was wondering what I was going to see when I clicked on this thread.
Don't know if it's the same now, but when I went through the Mormon Tabernacle in SLC (quite a few years ago) the wood grain on all the pews and all of the wood trim was painted on so it all looked like oak. One guy did all of it. Started at one end, worked his way to the other. Took him all year to do it, and then he'd have to start all over. Job security.
A lost art, from what I understand.
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Dennis Leigh Henry
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Yeah.. that and painting marble to match. My father was a long term union painter, paperhanger, and allied trades (he could do old fashion plaster repairs, amongst many of those specialized trades). He would use wood grain painting if a piece of wood would not cooperate with the look he was after.. He called it "faking it in"...
I saw him do this with other techniques including marble and matching stonework. He use to hand tint paint with a rack of paint tints he carried around in his paint truck with him, way before the computerized paint matching we have today... Many skills but alas as you've said, a lost art..
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My Old Tools
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I have an old set as well. Mine are individual combs. My dad was really talented doing that stuff.
Lippyp
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A lot of the woodwork in my last house was pine but dark varnished and grained to look like mahogany.
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Dennis Leigh Henry
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My dad showed me a set of stage doors at South Bend Central HS (now an apartment complex) both were steel and looked like they were oak....
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