Practical Carriage and Wagon Painting A Treatise on the Painting of Carriages, Wagons and Sleighs, Embracing Full and Explicit Directions for Executing All Kinds of Work, Including Painting Factory Work, Lettering, Scrolling, Ornamenting, Varnishing, etc., with Many Tested Recipes and Formulas

CHAPTER III.

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THE SURFACING STAGE OF PAINTING.

Materials Used--Priming--Its Importance--Numerous Formulas for Primers--When to Prime and How--Lead Coats--Their Office and Significance--Rub Lead, with Full Directions for Making and Applying--Knifing Lead, with Numerous Formulas for Making It--Putty--Ten Formulas for Making Putty--Directions for Using Putty so as to Obtain the Best Results--Sandpapering--How and How Not to Do It--Sizes of Paper to be Used--Roughstuff--Many Formulas for Making It--The Mission of Roughstuff, with Full and Complete Directions for Applying and Surfacing It--Six Illustrations Accompany the Chapter 17