Don Stephan
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Joined: 2003-07-18
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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Fun but serious question - what do you use for sand shading? When I first started working with veneer perhaps 15 or 20 years ago I came across a couple calls for "silver sand." A couple months of searching on the Internet and in veneering books didn't find a description of "silver sand." Lacking any better idea, I think I bought a bad of white playground sand at a big box store. Whatever I found, it is very fine grained and light colored.
Occasionally my veneer edge gets scortched/burned, so I thought I would try adding sand to my 6" cast iron skillet on a hotplate. Guessing that actual contact of the hot sand with the veneer is required for shading, I used a couple scraps of fiberglass windowscreen to screen the coarser grains out of common sand. Wondering if burning occurred i the past when the veneer edge touched the skillet, this time I picked up hot sand from the bottom of the skillet with a metal spoon, and then plunked the veneer edge in that. Seemed to work, no burning. And for this project I may have a hundred different pieces to sand shade.
So back to the title of this thread, what is your source of sand for sand shading?
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