Showing posts with label final. Show all posts
Showing posts with label final. Show all posts
Friday, February 21, 2014
A Finish To A Final Box
I just finished up a dovetailed chest of knotty white pine for a buddy of mine. The final intent of the box is a coffin for their dog Valen, who has lived a long, long life, and the chances are that some day soon he will be passing into the next one.
Its an odd thing to build something that will be buried in the earth before too long. Its an honor, but a strange honor. To compound on top of that strangeness, I decided to experiment with my shop time management.
Setting up and taking photos can be a huge time sink for me. Dont get me wrong, most of the time the documentation is well worth it, but I wasnt really building anything new. Its mostly a smaller rebuild of a traditional tool chest. There were somethings I did new. Beckets for rope handles on the ends, but that wasnt earth shattering enough to break out the camera.
I really wanted to find out how fast I could work if I buttoned my lip and got to it. Turns out I can go pretty fast (at least in my estimation) By rough figures I estimate about twenty hours into this box from boards to finished box. Pretty decent, but I have to remind myself I only hit the essentials here and nothing more. If I were making this for someones bedroom I would have been a whole lot more meticulous with the surface preparations. That can be a big time consumer too.
I did take final pictures though.
I did put a finish on the chest. One good coat of what Ive come to call The Maloof Finish. Its one part each tung oil, wipe on poly, and boiled linseed oil. I read an article written by Sam Maloof where he listed this. Its a good oil finish that has a great "touch" to it. Over the top of this I buffed on a coat of paste wax. I didnt finish the inside, no one wants to show up at the pearly gates smelling like finishing products. Sawdust maybe, but not oil.
I did for a while desperately want to paint this box black. In the end I got over that and decided the oil would be fine enough.
This was the first project I was able to push through the shop this summer, I got started just as the weather was barely starting to break for the better. Its very satisfying to have one down before the season has gone too far.
But enough of all this thinking and dwelling on the end of things. Im off to go play a Sunday night board game with my kids.
Ratione et Passionis
Oldwolf
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Its an odd thing to build something that will be buried in the earth before too long. Its an honor, but a strange honor. To compound on top of that strangeness, I decided to experiment with my shop time management.
Setting up and taking photos can be a huge time sink for me. Dont get me wrong, most of the time the documentation is well worth it, but I wasnt really building anything new. Its mostly a smaller rebuild of a traditional tool chest. There were somethings I did new. Beckets for rope handles on the ends, but that wasnt earth shattering enough to break out the camera.
I really wanted to find out how fast I could work if I buttoned my lip and got to it. Turns out I can go pretty fast (at least in my estimation) By rough figures I estimate about twenty hours into this box from boards to finished box. Pretty decent, but I have to remind myself I only hit the essentials here and nothing more. If I were making this for someones bedroom I would have been a whole lot more meticulous with the surface preparations. That can be a big time consumer too.
I did take final pictures though.
I did put a finish on the chest. One good coat of what Ive come to call The Maloof Finish. Its one part each tung oil, wipe on poly, and boiled linseed oil. I read an article written by Sam Maloof where he listed this. Its a good oil finish that has a great "touch" to it. Over the top of this I buffed on a coat of paste wax. I didnt finish the inside, no one wants to show up at the pearly gates smelling like finishing products. Sawdust maybe, but not oil.
I did for a while desperately want to paint this box black. In the end I got over that and decided the oil would be fine enough.
This was the first project I was able to push through the shop this summer, I got started just as the weather was barely starting to break for the better. Its very satisfying to have one down before the season has gone too far.
But enough of all this thinking and dwelling on the end of things. Im off to go play a Sunday night board game with my kids.
Ratione et Passionis
Oldwolf
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Media Cabinet Final Stages
Well, I am in the final stages of the media cabinet! Im pumped and can see the finish line. Over the weekend we finally had some amazing weather so I was able to spend a good deal of time working on the cabinet. I was able to rout the profile around the bottom of the cabinet and then glue the vertical partitions into place. Next, I was able to dry fit all of the back panels; for these I just used ship lapped panels that will free float. One thing I did was to leave a good bit of space in the center section, at the top, to allow plenty of air flow and cable routing. I also took a page out of Marc Spagnuolos book and his media cabinet build where he inset the middle back panel a couple of inches so you could put the power strip there and all the cable routing would fit in there and be hidden and allow you to put the cabinet further against the wall; great idea!
After the vertical partitions were dried, I got to work final fitting all the shelves and got those lightly glued into place. Lastly, I put the center doors back in and did the final fitting of those to make sure I had enough clearance all the way around each door. Then it was time to do any glue removal and finish sanding to prepare for the finish. One thing I like to do is to wait a few hours for the dust to settle, literally, then wipe the whole piece down with mineral spirits. This does a couple of things. First, it gets all the saw dust off of the piece. Next, it allows you to see any blemishes or glue spots that you may have missed and allows you to touch those up before putting on the finish.
For the finish I am applying a couple coats of Watco Danish Oil. Once that is good and dry (after a few days) I am going to spray several coats of shellac on it. This may be about another week or so away as the weather is supposed to turn pretty cold again for the next several days.
A couple construction Items I still need to do are to scrape and sand the top, rout the profile on it and apply the finish. I also need to feet on the base as well, but that will be last. Nearing the end!
Be Safe!
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After the vertical partitions were dried, I got to work final fitting all the shelves and got those lightly glued into place. Lastly, I put the center doors back in and did the final fitting of those to make sure I had enough clearance all the way around each door. Then it was time to do any glue removal and finish sanding to prepare for the finish. One thing I like to do is to wait a few hours for the dust to settle, literally, then wipe the whole piece down with mineral spirits. This does a couple of things. First, it gets all the saw dust off of the piece. Next, it allows you to see any blemishes or glue spots that you may have missed and allows you to touch those up before putting on the finish.
For the finish I am applying a couple coats of Watco Danish Oil. Once that is good and dry (after a few days) I am going to spray several coats of shellac on it. This may be about another week or so away as the weather is supposed to turn pretty cold again for the next several days.
A couple construction Items I still need to do are to scrape and sand the top, rout the profile on it and apply the finish. I also need to feet on the base as well, but that will be last. Nearing the end!
Be Safe!
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