NiTay614 Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 I heard you talk about dipping the scroll saw project into lemon oil. Will the lemon oil interfer with gluing the finished projet to the felt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 It depends on what kind of glue you use. Any oil will affect a standard wood glue or white PVA glue. I don't use oil on my scroll saw portraits. Oil is used to bring out the grain, and since I use Baltic Birch plywood, it has very little grain to show off. Instead, I just clearcoat the portrait with clear acrylic spray. I also don't glue felt to my projects. I just set them behind the project and the frame backer keeps the felt in place. Oil would be good on ply where color or grain is a focal point. I also use oil on all of my solid-wood projects. But I guess I went a bit off topic. If you were to use oil on a portrait and wanted to glue the felt to the project, I'd use a hot glue gun. It holds well and can be easily removed. Other alternatives: epoxy, construction adhesive, super glue (ca glue), and spray adhesive would all work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qlty Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 My way of useing lemon oil is to fill an old jelly jar half full of it ,cut the handle off a cheap chip brush to fit in the jar so lid can be closed.This way no mess or clean up.I find that a brush on of the oil is enough to bring out grain in most woods instead of soaking,also drying time is faster.Glueing to oil is a tough one,perhaps after oil dries real good and a clear arcrilic is applied to the back gluing might be more efective??John aka qlty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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