by waaytoomuchintothis » Sat Oct 07, 2017 7:00 pm
I hesitate to mention this, but IF (IF!) your paint doesn't have anything to do with the current generation of water soluble varnishes (mostly Minwax Poly and its cousins), you can wipe the whole thing down very effectively with old fashioned tack cloth (gauze treated with pine tar). You will have zero dust after a light rubbing with tack cloth, but be damned sure about your paint. After 200 years of varnishes, paints, shellacs, and lacquers worked fine, we have recently been overrun by water soluble finishes that are fussy as an old maid schoolteacher.