Adirondack Tennessee swamp cyprus chairs

A good save, thanks to Gorrilla Glue!

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Thanks Dick, attached is the project I’m working on today. 8/17/2008 (my Bday heheheheheh) >grin<

It is a commission for two framed haunted forest landscape sets with a triptych for good measure.

all three have book matched stiles. Mortise and tenon construction (with my new machine).

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Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Very nice, oh and happy B-day. I like your stile :)

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Dan Nice job on both old and new.

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sanded to 220 and dyed stained

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Hi Dan;

Happy Birthday!

I agree it would be ashame to have a new board in the middle of that chair.

Good save.

As always, the new project you’re working on is up to your normal level of perfection.

Lee

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real potent 6 month oil vinegar steel wool in a jar dye mixture

I used a corner of a reg rag to sponge on the vinager wood acid on the sides and back. Fast way to get black.
Doesn’t take much liquid to react with oak. Gets black almost immediately.

next step is oil stain / japanese dryer . ............ jazzed up mix ….0000 steel wooled.

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Very nice work Dan and Happy Birthday !!!!

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Cool stuff birthday boy!

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couple coats of seedlac shellac

really starting to pop

Thanks everyone !!

Guess what I’m doing on my birthday ? The Peggster is cookin’ Corkey’s BBQ ribs on the gas grill !!!

Forgot mention …. why jazzed up oil stain ? .... look at the time. Two hours flat in-front of a shop fan and then two coats of shellac.

That’s some jazzed up finish.

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Nice job with the finish Dan.

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Last step for today … its 11:21 pm

Java Gel stain to darken it up a bit, .... n …. squeeze out a bit more pop.

next steps
steel wool 0000
seedlac two or three thin coats
walnut paste wax

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Wow. That oak looks rich and ??? warm.. looks like high end 100 year old museum stuff. nice work….

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Dan,
Stellar finish. But I personally think what makes this whole piece work is the book match on the stiles. If they didn’t match that well then that spectacular finish would only have highlighted the mismatch. Nice work upfront to get to the finish.

Got my EAGLE router bits and coping sled today. Thanks Martin and Julie ! You too Gary and Charlie !

Thanks for the cool comments everyone !

As you can tell from my photography, I like layers of shaded finish …. and bookmatched quartersawn white oak. Shellac French polish is fun too. Tip …. the red cloth shop rags from Harbor Freight are good for about everything I’ve tried to use them for. Found that it makes good, consistent material for applying the shellac.

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Figured I’d click on one of the Gorilla glue buttons and … well … then I started feeling guilty about not mentioning Gorilla glue enough in my post. Well …. thought this was cute. Cool prize.

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photos are not very good. taken about 11 pm in living room. two 60 watt reading lamps and flash.

three more thin coats of seedlac, still not waxed.

2nd one is titled : Another look into my Haunted Forest ….. electric blue

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The more I see the blue one , the more I like it. The electric blue glaze looks different in evey light. At night, with just the TV and a reading lamp it has a one-of-a-kind haunting feeling. Impossible to cature in a photograph.

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great finishing process…. Did I read that correctly, that is a jar of vinegar with steel wool in it to get that black finish? That, then the shellac – great color, matches the desk I’m at perfectly!

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steel wool and vinager reacts and makes a solution. which when brushed on the oak turns it a charcoal color,

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