Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition

Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition

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Title: Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing
Author: William N. Brown
Release Date: April 14, 2005 [EBook #15622]
Language: English
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A HANDBOOK ON JAPANNING
_FOR IRONWARE, TINWARE, WOOD, ETC._
WITH SECTIONS ON TIN-PLATING AND GALVANIZING
BY
WILLIAM N. BROWN
_SECOND EDITION: REVISED AND ENLARGED WITH THIRTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS_
LONDON SCOTT, GREENWOOD AND SON "THE OIL AND COLOUR TRADES JOURNAL" OFFICES 8 BROADWAY, LUDGATE, E.C.
1913
D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY 8 WARREN ST., NEW YORK
_First Edition under title "A Handbook on Japanning and Enamelling", 1901_
_Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, under title "A Handbook on Japanning"--January, 1913_

CONTENTS.
PAGE SECTION I.
INTRODUCTION. 1-5
Priming or Preparing the Surface to be Japanned 4
The First Stage in the Japanning of Wood or of Leather without a Priming 5
SECTION II.
JAPAN GROUNDS. 6-19
White Japan Grounds 7
Blue Japan Grounds 9
Scarlet Japan Ground 9
Red Japan Ground 10
Bright Pale Yellow Grounds 10
Green Japan Grounds 10
Orange-Coloured Grounds 11
Purple Grounds 11
Black Grounds 11
Common Black Japan Grounds on Metal 12
Tortoise-shell Ground 12
Painting Japan Work 13
Varnishing Japan Work 17
SECTION III.
JAPANNING OR ENAMELLING METALS. 20-28
Enamelling Bedstead Frames and similar large pieces 24
Japanning Tin, such as Tea-trays and similar goods 25
Enamelling Old Work 27
SECTION IV.
THE ENAMELLING AND JAPANNING STOVE--PIGMENTS SUITABLE FOR JAPANNING WITH NATURAL LACQUER--MODERN METHODS OF JAPANNING WITH NATURAL JAPANESE LACQUER. 29-48
Appliances and Apparatus used in Japanning and Enamelling 29
Modern Japanning and Enamelling Stoves 34
Stoves heated by direct fire 34
Stoves heated by hot-water pipes 36
Pigments suitable for Japanning with Natural Lacquer 45
White Pigments 45
Red Pigments 46
Blue Pigment 46
Yellow Pigments 46
Green Pigment 46
Black Pigment 46
Methods of Application 46
Modern Methods of Japanning and Enamelling with Natural Japanese Lacquer 47
SECTION V.
COLOURS FOR POLISHED BRASS.--MISCELLANEOUS. 49-57
Painting on Zinc or on Galvanized Iron 49
Bronzing Compositions 49
Golden Varnish for Metal 51
Carriage Varnish 51
Metal Polishes 51
Black Paints 52
Black Stain for Iron 53
Varnishes for Ironwork 55
SECTION VI.
PROCESSES FOR TIN-PLATING. 58-60
Amalgam Process 59
Immersion Process 59
Battery Process 59
Weigler's Process 60
Hern's Process 60
SECTION VII.
GALVANIZING. 61-66
INDEX. 67-69

HANDBOOK ON JAPANNING.

SECTION I.
INTRODUCTION.
Japanning, as it is generally understood in Great Britain, is the art of covering paper, wood, or metal with a more or less thick coating of brilliant varnish, and hardening the same by baking it in an oven at a suitable heat. It originated in Japan--hence its name--where the natives use a natural varnish or lacquer which flows from a certain kind of tree, and which on its issuing from the plant is of a creamy tint, but becomes black on exposure to the air. It is mainly with the application of "japan" to metallic surfaces that we are concerned in these pages. Japanning may be said to occupy a position midway between painting and porcelain enamelling, and a japanned surface differs from an ordinary painted surface in being far more brilliant, smoother, harder, and more durable, and also in retaining its gloss permanently, in not being easily injured by hot water or by being placed near a fire; while real good japanning is characterised by great lustre and adhesiveness to the metal to which it has been applied, and its non-liability to chipping--a fault which, as a rule, stamps the common article.
If the English process of japanning be more simple and produces a less durable, a less costly coating than the Japanese method, yet its practice is not so injurious to the health. Indeed, it is a moot point in how far the Japanese themselves now utilize their classical process, as the coat of natural japan on all the articles exhibited at the recent Vienna exhibition as being coated with the natural lacquer, when recovered after six months' immersion in sea water through the sinking of the ship, was destroyed, although it stood perfectly well on the articles of some age. In the English method, where necessary, a priming or undercoat is employed. It is customary to fill up any uneven surface, any minute holes or pores, and to render the surface to be japanned uniformly smooth. But such an undercoat or priming is not always applied, the coloured varnish or a proper japan ground being applied directly on the surface to be japanned. Formerly this surface usually, if not always, received a priming coat, and it does so still where the surface is coarse, uneven, rough, and porous. But where the surface is impervious and smooth, as in the case of metallic surfaces, a priming coat is not applied. It is also unnecessary to apply such a coat