917 days ago
by Chris Davis |
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People often ask me about my finishes and I am always wondering about how others do their finish too. I feel the finish is the key to any furniture. A bad finish can destroy the look and the value of a piece. I thought I’d share what I do and what material and equipment I use.
As in equipment, I use an air assisted airless. It takes the best of both worlds. Low air volume but without using too high of pressure as in the airless rigs. It works like an airless, which I used for ...
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1378 days ago
by CaptainSkully |
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I was able to get back out into the shop and make some progress on this project. This was my first foray into template routing. I can definitely see the power of this technique. I was able to knock out the inside, decorative cuts on all four sides and they’re identical. They need almost no sanding. The slight errors in the template were the only problems on the finished sides. It took only a light hand sanding to fix those.
I didn’t have too much trouble with wood grain, ...
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313 days ago
by sras |
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After getting everything set up, the next step was put the finish on! I really like this step, each coat increases the gloss, depth and color.
I use a two finish process, both parts are from General Finishes. The first finish is their oil based coat.
I wipe the finish on with a piece of cheesecloth. The first coat basically soaks into the wood.
Areas where the grain is very tight, even the first coat shows a little gloss. I add more coats until the wood shows a uniform gloss....
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1134 days ago
by Chris Davis |
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What’s happening in the shop for April 13, 2010 . Putting the finish on Bass’ Entertainment Dresser, prepping White’s TV stand, and building two baseball beds and a football bed.
For missed video and building pictures see my Current Projects link at wwbeds.com or poggyskids.com.
Watch us live:
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1808 days ago
by gizmodyne |
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I had a little more handwork to do on the Little Journey’s Bookstand. I fiddled with the tusks a bit.
I originally sanded the piece to 400 but decided to sand to 220 this time. The loose tenons/tusks took forever to sand and detail.
Fuming Time
I have always wanted to try this. Two years ago I had a student whose dad owned a blueprint shop. He gave me a large bottle of super strength ammonia. I had bought an ammonia respirator in preparation for the job.
I build a simple te...
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2193 days ago
by gizmodyne |
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Last time on Lumberjocks . . .If you read the last blog you saw our finishing woes. Well, we tried patch sanding the cross grain scratch to no success. So we stripped and sanded the enitre door face and the face frame.
We were under the gun since our project was due to class by Friday night.
48 Hours to GoThe door is stripped.
One coat of stain on the fresh face
Our tight schedule: glue up bases while the poly dries.
Our first base cabinet assembled and receiving staples for i...
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911 days ago
by Chris Davis |
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A lot happening in the shop for November 22, 2010. We are finishing out Charton’s bed with trundle, finishing Rierson’s muprhy bed, bookcased and other cabinets. Building Sever’s drawer units. Start building Reed’s Murphy bed
For missed video and building pictures see my Current Projects link at wwbeds.com or poggyskids.com.
Watch us live:
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1064 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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Did you ever see some really beautiful woodworking done only to notice that it wasn’t really ‘finished’? I have been doing woodworking and scroll sawing for a long time and I must admit that finishing is one of my shortcomings. I have been to many shows, too where people have on display the most beautiful, intricate fretwork that must have taken them days to cut, only to have little or no finish on them – or worse yet – a poorly sprayed on finish which has drip...
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1079 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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Well, here we are. Another weekend under our collective tool belts and starting off a new one. I sit here knowing when I check my Facebook account the usual barrage of grumblings and comments about Monday will be waiting there to greet me. It seems everyone has something negative to say about Monday. I fell like asking people “What did Monday ever do to you anyway?”
My friends on Facebook are by now used to my bright and chipper attitude on Monday. I purposely turn it up a ...
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1208 days ago
by CaptainSkully |
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So, the new top is in daily use. I put seven or eight coats of Bristol Finish water-based polyurethane on it. It’s a marine varnish for boat interiors, which I used on my old table, and it’s pretty impervious. No coasters required! It’s still sitting on top of the mock-up MDF and the old table, so it’s pretty high.
I was going to start on the Rodel Taliesin base next, but since I made the leaves, I don’t have enough lumber to make the base, or the mone...
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