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…
The Wood Finishing Bible
Picked this up last night; it’s a really interesting read, if you’re into this sort of thing. I’m about 5 chapters in, and am finding it really very interesting.
Another gorgeous August day, and I’m getting pretty good with a circular saw. I cut 2 44.5″ x 60″ desktops out of two 60″x60″ pieces of beautiful Baltic birch (man, that stuff weighs a ton! Thirteen…
The attic room project continues…haven’t made much physical progress on it this past week, but I’ve been doing a lot of research, redesigning other projects, getting ready to build the daybed and attached cabinet, and tweaking my desktop sketches…
I’d given myself 1 day to sand the window trim on the final 3 windows to make them flush, flat and smooth, plus do the caulking and puttying, then painting 2 coats of primer, and 2 coats of final paint.…
