Stabilising Solution

Stabilising Solution is a low viscosity clear or slightly tinted oil based coating for consolidating powdery surfaces ready for overcoating with water or oil based paints.


Sticker

Shaping of moulding produced by a wood plane or Sticker machine.   

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Stipple

Dabbing the surface with a soft brush (stippling brush), (can also be made of rubber) whilst the coating is wet, to remove all brush marks. Also when broken colour or textured effects are being created.


Stippling

A decorative effect achieved by dabbing a wet applied glaze with a stippling brush.


Stopper

A filler of a paste consistency used for filling holes and cracks in timber.


Striker Brush

See: Turks Head


String

The two outer sections of a staircase where either one or both sides are fix to the adjoining walls


Surface Dry/Touch Dry

The initial setting of a wet film which although still soft can be handled without damage.


Tack

Stickiness.


Tack Rag/Tack Cloth

 

 

Trade name
Fabric usually cheese cloth impregnated with a slow drying oil used to remove dust particles after a surface has been rubbed down.