Slow, but steady. Now I have to wait hours between each glue-up of edging to table, due to the small number of clamps we own, but it’s going well. I’ll use pipe and/or bar clamps for the other…
I put 4-6 or maybe 8 coats of oil-based varnish on each side of the 7 pieces that go into making my new humongous desk (plus dyed and varnished 3 cabinets), so that whole process seemed to take forever, as…
I’m closing in on completing my desk building project…
Finished the ebony dye and varnish of the under-desk cabinets and left desktop varnishing. Still need to finish and add edging, the right desktop, and a connecting piece in the middle.…
Wouldn’t you know, just as soon as I started doing the varnishing on my desk parts, the humidity in Austin went way up. It’s even been spitting rain periodically. All of which slows down the curing time of…
So I decided to dye-stain my desk cabinets ebony, which will still allow the wood grain to show through, but just darken the color to not quite black. One more round…
I finally got a flat file for storing my flat works on paper. No, not the real artists’ kind, but these will work and were less than half the cost of the least expensive real kind. Took about…
