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MAHOGANY & LACQUERED FURNITURE FINISHING PROCESS

Mahogany Furniture - Step By Step Finishing Process
Every mahogany piece is hand carved by the finest carvers utilising traditional hand tools and quality raw materials with a hand applied finish. As solid mahogany timber is a natural material, small knots, blemishes, stains and small colour variations must be regarded as part of its inherent beauty. All our mahogany furniture is hand crafted using traditional dove tailed joints and solid mahogany frame construction.



1. Sanding Our team in Indonesia use EKAMEN sandpaper No.120 and NIPON No.150 for machine sanding and NIPON No.120 for hand sanding.	2. Base Stain In the raw state a base stain is applied. A cloth is used to work the wood stain into the wood pores, this speeds us the drying process. If wood resins appear after the base stain process, this is rectified by using small pieces of glass to elliminate.	3. Base Coat The base coat protects and closes the wood pores. A spray gun is used to flatten the coating on all parts of furniture.



4. Sanding After Base Coat Using NIPON sandpaper No.360 each piece of furniture is sanded smooth and clean before the next step.	5. Second Stain The same procedure as the first stain process is used to apply the second stain. The purpose of the second stain is to enhance the base stain so this matches as closely as possible to the real stain.	6. First Top Coat The function of first top coat is to protect the second staining processing. A spray gun is used to flatten the coating.



7. Final Stain/Colouring The function of this step is to give an overall colour definition for all areas of each piece of furniture.	8. Final Top Coat The function of top coat is to protect all the finishing processes. This is applied using a spray gun.	9. Final Touch Finally all the furniture is hand waxed and packed in corrugated paper ready to be shipped.

Lacquered Furniture - Finishing Process

Lacquer is the fastest-drying of the finishes for wooden furniture. It is more durable than shellac and must be applied in many thin coats with a motorized spray gun. Lacquer can be used on most woods, but it cannot be used on mahogany and rosewood; the oils in these woods will bleed through the finish. Lacquer can be used over lacquer-base, non-grain-raising (NGR), and water stains, and over lacquer-base fillers. It cannot be used over other finishes, or over oil-base stains or many fillers; the solvents in lacquer will dissolve other finishes and incompatible stains and fillers. Thinned lacquer or shellac or a compatible lacquer-base sanding sealer should be used as a sealer under a lacquer finish. Before wood can be finished with lacquer it must be properly prepared, sanded, and sealed.