Thanks guys.
I am pleased with the grain, too. Both ends and the middle came from 3 consecutive boards from the tree I milled. That crazy grain at the bottom took a lot of work to get flat and surfaced. There is a stripe of sapwood that I think I successfully concealed on the outside faces with dye but I need to work on those inside faces some more. It looked OK before I hit it with varnish but now it sticks out.
The last dresser I did, I think I wiped the inside with shellac to seal in the stink. That seemed to work so I'll probably do it again. I don't remember how I did the drawers. I think I finished the drawers with oil and then wiped on the shellac. The bottoms aren't in the drawers yet so I'll just finish those with shellac, no oil.
When you say lacquer, do you mean waterbased? How do the pros do it? I talked to a refinisher because I was thinking about outsourcing the finishing (he never got back to me) but he uses precat lacquer and I'm fairly certain it's not WB. How do they eliminate the smell? Just give it time?
Me, too!
I am pleased with the grain, too. Both ends and the middle came from 3 consecutive boards from the tree I milled. That crazy grain at the bottom took a lot of work to get flat and surfaced. There is a stripe of sapwood that I think I successfully concealed on the outside faces with dye but I need to work on those inside faces some more. It looked OK before I hit it with varnish but now it sticks out.
The last dresser I did, I think I wiped the inside with shellac to seal in the stink. That seemed to work so I'll probably do it again. I don't remember how I did the drawers. I think I finished the drawers with oil and then wiped on the shellac. The bottoms aren't in the drawers yet so I'll just finish those with shellac, no oil.
When you say lacquer, do you mean waterbased? How do the pros do it? I talked to a refinisher because I was thinking about outsourcing the finishing (he never got back to me) but he uses precat lacquer and I'm fairly certain it's not WB. How do they eliminate the smell? Just give it time?
Me, too!
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