finish on bottle stoppers

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I have tried different finishes on bottle stoppers. List being CA, spray lacquer, shellac finsih.

I am working on a couple right now and having a difficult time with the spray lacquer. It is not "adhearing" to the stopper. Basically it will not harden or peel off. I have done other stoppers out of the same wood with no problems.

What other type of finishes have you bottlestoppers used?
 
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I watched a few of yoyo's videos on bottle stoppers. He used his beall 3 wheel and applied danish oil (I think) first. Then white diamond. He then used Ren wax. Then after a about a minute a second coat of Ren wax. Don't know if this helps you or not.
 
I was at Woodcraft tonight asking them the exact same question. I had some that were doing the same thing and he asked what kind of wood I was using. The woods that were causing me problems had oil in them, like Rosewood, Olive Wood, etcd.. and the oil was causing the finish to be tacky. He told me if I use a sanding sealer after sanding, that would solve my problem. Hope this helps.
 
Tom, try wiping your stopper down with acetone after you sand it down and are ready for your lacquer, the acetone treatment is only good for about 15 min before the oil in the wood will resurface. This issue was brought up some time ago and I tried it and it worked for me.
 
Yeah Bob, did that too. For some reason the finish is just not taking. I even moved it inside the house to dry and am keeping the can of spray in the house.
 
I generally sand to 600, wipe down with alcohol and then apply sanding sealer. Following that I'll buff with buff with tripoli and white diamond. Often, after that, I'll go straight to ren wax without any real finish. I've done a lot of Olive stoppers (and a number of cocobolo and other oily woods) and I've never had any issues with this approach.

I've only used laquer on a stopper a few times. I don't know if I've been lucky, or the combination of the alcohol and sealer did the trick.

-Barry
 
It looks like there are just a few different type of ways to finish the bottle stoppers. I was hoping someone out there had a new way I have not tried yet.

I ended up doing the shellac, ren wax finish on the cocobolo and I think the lacquer finish on the BoW yesterday. I will know today when I finally touch it.
 
By the way, there is a new yahoo stopper group that just started up (stoppertoppers). The old one went away because there apparrently wasn't much traffic and I don't know if the new one will fare any better, but once it has some critical mass, perhaps it can be another source of ideas.

-Barry
 
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