Follow-up : ancient wood finishing recipes from the French Masters (Boulle & Watin)
Hi all, Last year I posted about the work done by the restorers at the C2RMF and the finishing recipe they have devised. Meanwhile I made a year-long experiment again with the wood stained by Chlorociboria, and I actually had the time to dig into the data we had collected about the behaviour of this recipe with the usual marquetry woods. Although this hasn’t been published yet, I can confirm that their recipe is indeed super stable overtime (we did both an accelerated AND a realtime aging series of experiments). Contrary to what was the case “back in the day”, nowadays we have a very strong and effective knowledge about chemistry (real chemistry was born in their days...
