{"id":521,"date":"2020-04-23T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=521"},"modified":"2020-04-23T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T16:40:07","slug":"in-the-furo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/in-the-furo\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Furo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A furo<\/em> is a “drying cabinet”. It’s where you put urushi<\/em> lacquered objects to keep them warm and humidified until the lacquer has fully cured. Depending on the type of lacquer, this could take a number of weeks. In my case “furo” is actually short for “fu<\/strong>rnace ro<\/strong>om”, which is a nice warm room in the house that also contains the hot water heater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been working on a couple of wooden box projects, and I decided to finish them with walnut oil. Walnut oil is a drying oil (like boiled linseed oil), but it contains no chemical drying agents like BLO does and is food safe. The down side is that it takes about a month to cure, so I can’t show these boxes as finished projects for some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boxes in the furo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Both boxes are constructed primarily of 1\/4″ cherry scants. These are off-cuts from trimming down the legs of the two cherry marudai I made. The floors of both boxes are bookmatched resawn maple. The floor of the smaller box is the result of trying to make the larger box and having it come out a little small due to lack of planning. The lid of the smaller box is more 1\/4″ cherry that has been edge-glued into a single panel. The lid of the larger box is 3\/4″ rough-sawn cherry salvaged from the scrap pile at Mr. Arimoto’s shop. Once the oil went on the raw surface of the cherry, the whole thing went deep and beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m going to try to resist the urge to peek in on them constantly. We’ll see how they look in a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A furo is a “drying cabinet”. It’s where you put urushi lacquered objects to keep them warm and humidified until the lacquer has fully cured. Depending on the type of lacquer, this could take a number of weeks. In my case “furo” is actually short for “furnace room”, which is a nice warm room in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31],"tags":[268,269,271,32,23],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-woodworking-projects","tag-boxes","tag-cherry","tag-in-progress-2","tag-projects","tag-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}