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Can someone please explain why the thread on alaknet root has gone on so long? I'm sure that it is fascinating and that if I read all 24 pages, the answer would become clear, but alas, I don't have that much vacation time saved up!
Thank you -IM

It says alkenet root imparts a reddish hue to stock finish.
Your welcome

Good one PD!!

I was waiting for someone to summarize it.

JC(AL)

I was as red as I needed to be by page 4.
L.F.

FWIW, there was a thread on one of the hockey boards about Poutine, the Quebec version of French Fries with gravy and cheese curds poured over them. It started out about game-time snacks and then digressed to wander all over the universe. It was finally cut off at 12,000 posts. Poutine deux is now up to 1,600 posts and still going. Some threads somehow take on a life of their own. You never know what you might start. And please, no discussion of food here, unless it game recipes.

Dave.........talking hockey in Carolina! When the round ball is king(okay queen compared to Kentucky)!
Cheers,

Kentucky, maybe. But have you heard of the Carolina Hurricanes? Stanley Cup Champions in 2006! Go Canes. A much faster game than roundball. I have a feeling this post could also wander a while.

The "red" post became a show and tell post. Some of those get better with time and some peter out. If you read the post from front to back you would find about five good tips in the entire thing. If you are into stock finishing then it is a post well worth reading. If you are not into stock finishing then it is just too much about red.

KY has to cheer for basketball because the wait of ten plus years between winning UK football teams is to long for most UK fans to count. Past ten fingers they get confused. Seems to me that the last team to wear Blue, when winning the NCAA, was from the ACC not the SEC. Heck if you count Maryland then there is another ACC team to win since a UK team won. In fact I would bet on the ACC before I would the SEC to reach the final four almost every time and have done so for many years.

I thought the facination with red on a stock was entertainingly contrasting with the Krieghoff K-32 owners I've heard discussing how to bleach out the red in those stocks.

Don't know if fettish fits. The post starts there, but soon goes in several interesting directions. It will be a post I copy before it cycles off, forever. I will also re-read that copy several more times, I know, whenever the itch to refinish hits again.

I look at it mostly as an explanation of certain British "best practices", per stock finishing and stock finishing components. Some of these methods and materials have then been put to use by several readers while the post has run and feedback has come back to fuel more discussion and learning. In short, it is a stock finisher's "soap". Long live this particular soap.