Brushes & Finishing Supplies

The tools the shop reaches for alongside the resin.

These are the working tools the bench keeps within reach — each chosen because finishers we trust use it themselves, and because the alternatives we tried fell short on the work.

Lily brushes — hand-tied in Spain, the working brush of professional French polishers. The hair holds shellac the way the technique requires; the ferrule is built to outlast a generation of use. Sold in the three-piece set most practitioners settle on, and individually.

Liberon #0000 steel wool — the grade serious finishers use to rub out a shellac or oil finish between coats and at the final polish. Made in the UK to the consistency the work demands; cuts cleanly without shedding.

Quebracho powdered tannin — the old-world technique for ebonizing oak through chemistry rather than dye. Brushed on as a tannin wash before an iron-acetate strike, it pulls the wood toward black from the inside. Practitioners reach for it in the same workflow as the brushes and steel wool; it earns its place on this page through how it's used.

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