fillers

I've read through the knowledge base and other postings on traditional canvas fillers and I'm going to try mixing up my own filler using a recipe that calls for oil based enamel paint. Any advice on a paint brand to use? Will Rust-Oleum oil enamel flat paint do it? Should I avoid gloss paint?

I have recently brought a wood and canvas canoe here in Northamptonshire, England which must be a strange place for it to end up. I believe it is an American built canoe. Using the information on-line I think it is either a Morris or Veazie canoe. It unfortunately has no maker’s plates...

Hi My name is Robert I have recently brought a wood and canvas canoe here in Northamptonshire, England which must be a strange place for it to end up. I believe it is an American built canoe. Using the information on-line I think it is either a Morris or Veazie canoe. It...

Early May, 2012: Ah, yes. The microballoons.... Well, I mixed up the filler per a common formula—boiled linseed oil, exterior alkyd enamel, thinner, a bit of varnish, and Japan dryer, but substituted the glass bubbles (microscopic indeed) for silica. Instructions were to substitute volume...