Wood Furniture Repair Kits

¶ There are on the market boxes or kits of tools and materials needed to do this sort of repair work on furniture. They are made for furniture stores, factory finishers, etc. One of these should be in the hands of every finisher. An excellent kit of this kind can be assembled by any finisher and should consist of the following items all fitted into a box of substantial character with cover and lock:

¶ 8 clean glass bottles of the 4 ounce size with, cork stoppers, 1 small camel hair artist's brush, 1 larger camel hair brush, 8 aniline colors, spirit-soluble; one ounce of each of the following, black, orange, yellow, Bismarck brown (red), walnut, golden oak, green and methylene blue, 1 quart denatured alcohol, 6 or more shellac cement sticks of the best quality in such colors as, light, dark and medium oak, walnut, mahogany, ebony, natural transparent, etc., 1 electric soldering iron such as is used for radio work, or a small alcohol lamp, 1 pocket knife, 1 old table knife, 6 sheets of fine sandpaper, No. 00, 1 ounce fine pumice stone, FF grade, ½ bar yellow laundry soap, ½ pint pure white bleached shellac, ½ pint polishing wax, ½ pound cake of paraffin wax, ½ pint turpentine. Clean wiping rags.

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