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Applying Finishes

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We spend hours planing and scraping each piece before applying the finish. Our dyes are water based, unlike modern oil-based stains. Our historic recipes, cooked up right on the stove top, use natural ingredients such as walnuts, raspberries, and onion peels to create the color in our dyes.

A simmering pot of walnuts and other ingredients used to make finishes