Heat gun, not lingering too long, works on most.
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Heat gun, not lingering too long, works on most.
Very nice... the crazy use of wood a century or so ago is a topic that can probably go on for a while.
If that's your first effort at a mortise and tenon, I say yipes that's pretty good.
Red oak for sides on a painted piece strikes me as odd. Maybe I'm ignorant though. If there really are several woods used, maybe you should think about painting it. My experience, and I've had to...
Do you know what they did when they did their annual service? For myself and the li'l woman, we dealt with 2 successful and well regarded companies and neither really did much when they did their...
Do the hinges sit flush in their mortises?
First, see what you can surmise from the existing structure such as heating vents. With the grill off you can often see and poke around with a wire and figure stuff out. Electrical outlets are...
Nice project and pretty wood well executed.
Aluminum foil and water works remarkably well on chrome.
Yeah, that's stunning. I've got a couple things that I want to use Waterlox for. Any thoughts or tips on using the stuff?
I've heard some really positive things about GRK, but haven't had occasion to try them.
Are you riveting to join or to decorate? You can get screws that look like rivets, but of course won't show anything on the opposite side. You can peen rivets pretty easily but they'll look, well,...
If alcohol makes it sticky, isn't it shellac? Are there other finishes that are possible? Personally, I dislike using chemical stripper. Maybe part of it is its the way i've done things and I've...
That's a pretty bench - very impressive. I know I'm a slow worker, but that still seems quite fast to build it.
There are a lot of factors that go into what kind of cases you choose. But for moving them around, I've got one of these and not the one with extra wheels and its pretty amazing how it stands up to...
That's pretty.
I know a lot about furnaces now, where before I knew almost nothing. We had the problem where the flame would go out after a few seconds and then the cycle would repeat. Used the advice of getting...
There is a lot of arsenic in CCA. It readily leaches out and takes a long time to break down. Chrome is an additional issue.
CCA was reregistered without any epa evaluation and specifically did...
Flitz polishes plastic. You could use either their regular polish or get a headlight polishing kit and do some headlights as well.
I used a Senco 18 gauge to put up effectively 1 x 8 oak baseboard. Senco talks about the coating on their fasteners. I don't know how true it is but they're on solidly. I had a couple spots on casing...
I use the transtint measured with an eye dropper and mixed with H2O.
I believe cedar scent can be renewed by putting on more cedar oil. I thought I would quick check with a search and just found out there are a lot of uses for cedar oil.
This link tells me its good...
Looks nice, old construction lumber is a treasure hunt.
Thanks for that info Anthony. Ironically, what got me thinking about doing some straps was that I have a lot of oak trimmings from a couple big projects and thought of doing some reduced dimension...
Wow, that's a lot of work. It does have a vintage feel to it. I was thinking of doing some smaller pieces that use straps and I've been looking at pictures that often leads to trunk hardware. It...
I actually just got my first bottle of Old Brown Glue today. I've used Titebond till now. I like the slow set and the easy clean up. If you work on prefinished stuff like interior trim, its just so...