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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 398171, member: 5066&quot;]So i have been researching this finish question the past several days as i find it interesting plus, it&#039;s the dog days of summer here in the carolinas &amp; i am hiding from the heat/humidity &amp; waiting on fall!</p><p>First thing i notice is, one needs a degree in chemical engineering when reading about this as the language is confusing &amp; finishing wood gets very complicated in a hurry. I even got out Bob Flexner&#039;s book (finishing guru who forced antique roadshow to retract their &quot;experts&quot; propaganda on the grunge movement), it didn&#039;t help much either.</p><p>In any event, no definitive info yet but a couple general points so far</p><p>1. Varnish in it&#039;s natural state is clear, oil varnish will yellow over time, water varnish (poly) will not yellow but isn&#039;t applicable because not around in 1890.</p><p>2. It can be tinted or colored, oil stain can be added in any color to tint/color the oil based varnish.</p><p>3. I do not think it possible for [USER=85]@clutteredcloset49[/USER] (as an example) chair to have a clear varnish finish and &quot;gone off&quot; to that dark a state all by itself unless something really weird happened. (like in a fire)</p><p>4. If you look at OP pics 3 &amp; 4 in first post (restoration pics) you can clearly see color in the less dense &quot;earlywood&quot; and virtually no color on the much more dense &quot;latewood&quot;. This is a common problem when staining oak, especially plain sawn oak, where open pores of earlywood soak up stain and the latewood takes almost none.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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