Project Gutenberg 2025-05-05 Public domain in the USA. 217 Hodgson, Fred T. (Frederick Thomas) 1832 1919 Hodgson, Frederick Thomas Hodgson, F. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) The hardwood finisher : $b with rules and directions, for finishing in natural colors and in antique, mahogany, cherry, birch, walnut, oak, ash, redwood, sycamore, pine, and all other domestic woods... $aNew York :$bThe Industrial Publication Company, $c1892. Charlene Taylor, A Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The hardwood finisher: with rules and directions, for finishing in natural…" compiled and edited by Fred T. Hodgson is a technical handbook written in the late 19th century. The work serves as a comprehensive manual for the finishing of wood used in building construction and decoration, focusing particularly on hardwoods. Its primary audience is architects, carpenters, woodworkers, painters, and decorators interested in professional methods for preparing, finishing, staining, varnishing, and polishing both domestic and exotic woods. The opening of the book lays out the broad scope of wood finishing, noting its importance to a variety of building trades and emphasizing the evolution of woodworking from primitive functions to sophisticated decorative arts. Hodgson explains his approach, which is to extract the most reliable techniques from a variety of sources and supplement them with his own experience, while keeping the focus tightly on wood used for buildings. The initial chapters introduce key concepts such as selecting proper wood, preparing surfaces, hiding fastenings, sanding, and preventing common defects. Detailed guidance is provided on the use and composition of fillers, differences between open- and close-grained woods, and the best materials and methods for achieving durable and attractive finishes. The section then progresses into step-by-step practical instructions on filling, staining, shellacking, varnishing, wax finishing, rubbing, and French polishing, catering to both standard and high-end finishes, and concludes with a segue to specific guidance on individual wood species starting with oak. This thorough introduction sets a clear, methodical and practical tone for the book as a trusted resource for serious wood finishers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/hardwoodfinisher00unse 20210328134527hodgson 1892 US Reading ease score: 67.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Wood finishing TT Text Category: Engineering & Technology Category: How To ... 312720 2025-06-30T06:06:07.303720 text/html 285388 2025-05-05T19:08:38 text/html 594526 2025-06-30T06:06:13.077711 application/epub+zip 596455 2025-06-30T06:06:08.868704 application/epub+zip 226275 2025-06-30T06:06:08.021723 application/epub+zip 565438 2025-06-30T06:06:16.318690 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 544053 2025-06-30T06:06:12.477697 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 267357 2025-06-30T06:06:06.704753 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 247250 2025-05-05T19:08:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16494 2025-06-30T06:06:16.452661 application/rdf+xml 7024 2025-06-30T06:06:08.304688 image/jpeg 1445 2025-06-30T06:06:08.161704 image/jpeg 595358 2025-06-30T06:06:07.334759 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog