FINISHING KAYU DARI BAHAN ALAM

Finishing is the final stage of the work process of making wood products, includingthe provision of certain materials, to embellish, visually highlight and protect the wood surface.Wood products would be more attractive when finished to the right. Realize an attractiveappearance finishing something very important, therefore there is need for a new discovery forwood finishing materials.Herbs as a natural material potential for wood products finishing materials. Inaddition to friendly environment, plants are also easy to obtain. Plants of various types can beprocessed and used as a wood finishing material, either as a basic dye, a mixture of dyes, aswell as the final finishing. In these experiments conducted on turmeric, gum gambier, betelleaves, sticks henna, mangosteen rind, skin jengkol, and injet for coloring wood.Through experimental research, with the wet technique and the results indicate sapgambier saffron color the best, producing the yellow color of turmeric, gambier and injet sapproduces a red color maroon. The maximum color is produced in addition to the basic materialcontaining pigment is good, as well as precise materials processing techniques, as well asabsorption of the pigments are also good timber. Meanwhile, the color produced by betelleaves, sticks henna, mangosteen rind, skin jengkol, less than the maximum. It is based on theassumption of researchers due to lack / incompatibility processing techniques such materials.Keywords: finishing, wood, natural materials.