Practical House, Wagon and Automobile Painter including sign painting, and valuable hints and recipes

“Take a piece of firm, close-grained charcoal, and near one end of it scoop out a cavity about half an inch in diameter and a quarter of an inch in depth. Place in the cavity a...

The glass must now dry before it can be re-gilded, and must then be gently rubbed with the finest cotton wool. It is an easy matter to ascertain whether it is dry or not. When w...

For tools, he needs a good, new, fine corn broom, a wide bristle sweeper (a ten or twelve-inch paper-hanger’s smoothing brush will do), a good duster, a sharp tool to pick out c...

Walnut, mahogany, chestnut, oak, ash and butternut may be classed as open grained woods, which need to be well filled with paste filler colored to match the color of the wood. W...

2 × 16 feet $ 6.00 2 × 20 feet 7.00 2 × 24 feet 8.00 2 × 30 feet 10.50 3 × 16 feet 8.00 3 × 20 feet 10.00 3 × 24 feet 12.00 3 × 30 feet 14.00 4 × 16 feet 9.00 4 × 20 feet 12.00...

When the paint commences to blister or scale on a door, it is very liable to keep on blistering and scaling from time to time, as long as any of the old paint is left on the doo...

_Per Foot._ Girth, 1 to 2 feet, each coat 3 cents Girth, 2 to 3 feet, each coat 4 cents Girth, 3 to 4 feet, each coat 5 cents Girth, 4 to 5 feet, each coat 6 cents

_Corn starch in shellac_ in proportion of 1 pound to the gallon _doubles its capacity as a filler_. I have made and used a filler for cheap work in this way: Pale rosin, 2 pound...

Probably no other subject dealing with the problem of the motorist has been so little, or to be correct, so unsatisfactorily treated as the home painting of cars. Most of the li...