ground and preparation

Today a package from Hammerl arrived containing the varnish (öllack la, colorless), siccative and porefiller and liquid for mixing the filler.
So everything is there to start some experiments.
I ordered prorefiller in 'nut' color. That is open to interpretation.
According to instruction by Hammerl the filler should be applied to the raw (on-grounded) wood.
I applied some of the filler to a small piece of nut of partly light and partly darker wood. The porefiller can impossibly adapt to the surrounding colour so it can at bast fit with one of the colors. Tomorow after drying and sanding we'll see if the result is acceptable.

I think the ground will be egg-white based. No sure if I'll use pure egg-white or a 'vernice bianca'

A nice page about varnish and grounds can be found at http://www.leroydouglasviolins.com/varnish.htm