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Page 18 The Antique Shoppe November, 2017 flow out of your finish coats. Just name is the manufacturer of the
Questions & add a squirt (it comes in a pump dresser. It has three drawers and

has original pull knobs. It doesn’t
bottle) to a mixed quart of your
Common Sense Answers finish. However, this product was give any dates on it. It was given
to me by my grandmother who
not designed for use with water
based coatings and I have never passed away at the age of 92 five
with Fred Taylor tried it with a water base so I don’t years ago. I would like to find out
the year when it was made.
know if it will work there or not.
It does do a good job with other —Kelley
I am finishing a cabinet Bill - You could have any finishes though. It is an automotive Kelley - The manufacturer
Q. I built using walnut A. number of problems product and can be found in some A. is the Robert W. Irwin Co. of
veneered plywood. Everything has ranging from some sort of large auto paint supply stores and Grand Rapids. Robert Irwin started
gone well so far but I am having contamination in your stain to a some better paint stores. his company in 1919 when he
a problem with the finishing. I bad can of poly. If you are spraying I have a dresser that acquired and combined Phoenix
have tested my stain on scraps the poly you could have oil in your Q. was given to me. Inside Furniture and Royal Furniture
and got what I believe to be the air lines. Try a couple the drawer it says into one entity. Pendleton is the
right color. I want to finish the of simple things first “Pendleton” on top name of a custom line of furniture
cabinet in polyurethane and that’s like a new can of and then “Irwin” in introduced by Irwin in 1940. It
my problem. I have done practice poly, a new brand of the middle. I don’t was made until Irwin went out of
coats on some of the drops of the poly or a different know how to look up business in 1953 and the name
plywood stock and even though stain. But whatever the piece to see if it’s was sold to Sterling of New York.
I was sure the pieces were clean you do I suggest you an antique because Your dresser was made in that 13
I am getting “fisheyes” in the immediately invest a I don’t know which year period.
finish. I even tried cleaning some few bucks in a product While the photo you sent was
of the drops with lacquer thinner called “Smoothie” very dark (too dark to print) your
before staining and coating with made by Marson The product “Smoothie” is Irwin dresser appears to be made
urethane and I still got the fisheye. Corp. It is an additive almost synonymous with of mahogany. It is in the Colonial
Any ideas? Thanks. for urethane, lacquer fish eye killer. I buy it in Revival style which means that it is
—Bill R. and paint that is a bulk and refill the pump based on a style that was popular
terrific fisheye killer. It bottle. That’s why my during our Colonial period. The
bottle of Smoothie is so
also will increase the ragged looking. drawer hardware is Hepplewhite

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