Corey we think alike!!!!! That is scary at times.....I had been thinking awhile about using rubbing compounds for quite a while on the finish. Something I haven't done in the past, but know the finish is incredible. Luckily I have a WoodCraft local, and they have all types of good classes and clinics and alot of times they guys will actually show me before I buy. Tons of good info from those guys there. I've also been looking at the HVLP setups, and would love to try my hand at shooting it that way. My buddy Mark does it all the time and makes it look so easy, but he likes that sort of thing anyways.....I might have to break down and invest in a good unit, but there's so much info out there just on the sprayers it's unreal!!!!
. Maybe some good reading material for at work tomorrow!!!!!
Actually got alittle accomplished today. Actually not that much. I got the last dreaded cut done on the bar top for the stand. I had taken pics, but somehow they have disappeared in the transfer from the camera to the computer, but not a big deal. I'll just take a couple more. I'm planning to use magnets to hold the bar top ledge in place, and have to do a little prep work before I take those pieces to the router table to put the finishing edge on them, and then pull out the Kreg jig again and piece the 2 together. Also finished adding the last pieces of molding to the stand. I had a brain fart during the install/buildup, and had to rework and add a bit to hide a flaw, but nothing major IMO. I'll have to get pics up of that as well.
On the way home I did stop at Lowes and Home Depot and look at stains. I figure not to overwhelm myself or my pocket, that everyday I'd stop and take a look at stains that did catch my eye and get a sample and come home and throw some at some scrap pieces. Tonight I picked up from Lowes from the Cabot line a sample called Shaded Bark. This is more on the brown side than I'm traditional use to using. Funny thing about it was years ago I was against the red tones, and finally changed, now I'm worried about crossing back over the fence
. Meowzer you better have some type of input!!!!!!! Here is a sample of the Shaded Bark. The piece wasn't pretreated and is not Poplar as well, and thought that the color retention or penetration on the molding vs the actual Poplar wood was all but perfect.
The piece on the left is actually Poplar, and the molding piece on the right is your standard hardwood molding. Each piece received
only 1 coat of stain, and I let sit for about 10 minutes and wiped down.
This is a shot of the crown molding with just 1 coat of gloss poly applied. I usually rub the pieces down with 0000 steel wool between
coats, so the shine would actually increase with the additonal coats, but not to certain I want the super high gloss sheen as on my
last build.
