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        SECR.ETS 161 CAB11F-f21-MAkERS, &C.    94
through a cloth, and with a large pencil strike it over the
paper; when dry, varnish it over with a varnish of tur-
pentine, or Spanish varnish.
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  SECRETS FOR CABINET MAKERS, AND TURNEIS.
     To prepare a Black Color for staining Wood.
  PUT tVo ounces of iron filingg into a new earthen pan;
  add to it one ounce of sal-ammoniac, dissolved in a quart
  of vinegar, and let it stand twelve days (the longer it
  stands the better it will be;) then take rasped logwood;
  and three onrces of gall-nuts, pounded fine; infuse this iIi
  a quart 6f lye made of lime; let this also stand the sanie
  time as the above.
  When you have occasion to use it, warm both those
  liquors over a slow fire, and with the lye first strike the
  wood over you design to dye, and then with vinegar'; re,
  peat this until you see the wood black enough to your
  liking; after which, wax the- wood over with bees-wax,
  and ruly it with a woollen rag, a" it will look bright and
  fine.
                To imitau Eboj Wood.
   TAKF clean anid smooth box, and boil, it in oil tntil i
 turns black. Or,
   Take smooth-planed pear-tree wood, strike it over with,
 aqna-fortis, and let-it dry in a shady place in the air; theft
 wipe it over with good black writiag-ink, and let it also dry,
 in th thade; repeat and wipe the ink over it until the
 black is to your liking. Then polish it with wax, arid a
 woollen rag.nothr,