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@Craig & @btyreman – thank you both for your suggestions and for the fair warning that my question may elicit some strong opinions 🙂
I will experiment with Floetrol – it seemed more correct to me (since alkyd paints are waterbourne), but I read a lot of (strong) opinions online favouring Penetrol instead. I can attest from my own experience that diluting the BM alkyd paint with water alone makes it nib horribly.
I may still try both -etrols, out of curiosity 🙂
As about the wood: black cherry (Prunus Serotina); the scraps are off cuts from the boards for the bookcases, so they are very close to what I need to paint.
Happy to hear more suggestions, and when I’m done I’ll write up a summary of what I will have learnt from my experiments.