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Mar. 24th, 2014 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI spent most of yesterday sanding things. The bed proper and the headboard took up quite a few pieces- two separate leg pieces, two separate rail bits, three pieces for the slats where the mattress will rest, and then the whole headboard. Most of the stuff just got 220 grit sandpaper, but the parts I figured might be visible are going to be subjected to French polish technique so I went over those with:
- 220-grit sandpaper
- fine grit sponge (equivalent to 320 grit sandpaper)
- extra fine grit sponge (up to around 400 grit, I think)
- really fine grit sponge (went up to about 500 grit, I think)
- a clean painter's rag to remove the sawdust
- a damp rag to raise some of the wood hairs
- 220-grit again to remove what felt like the hairs
- clean rag again
- a tack cloth this time to remove more of the sawdust
- a rag moistened in denatured alcohol to remove the rest of the sawdust
Worth noting: did you take high school chemistry? Did they teach you that if you have to sniff a sample you shouldn't put it under your nose, but put it near your nose and wave the fumes towards your face with your hand so you wouldn't get smacked with the worst of the stuff if it turned out to be painful or dangerous? I did. And yet I somehow forgot to do this when I was checking the rag to make sure it had enough alcohol on it. Don't do that.
Anyway, after the alcohol rag I let things dry a bit, then came back and put the water-based pre-stain conditioner on the headboard and both of the leg pieces. (There's only so much room to dry these things out properly, so the slat pieces and the rails will get done later.) I was happy when I left the room and spent some time playing XCOM: Enemy Within. Then I went back in and...
Well, the conditioner was nice and all, but it seemed to have raised wood hairs again. I nearly cried. I'd been wearing a respirator mask to keep the sawdust out all day, and my arms were sore in places, and I'd gotten the wood as smooth as bone, and now this? I did my best to go over things again with the 220-grit paper, then got out the stain and a staining pad and dosed the headboard and the legs anyway and wiped the extra off fifteen minutes later. I'll see if it needs sanding again tonight before I start anything with the shellac, but by the time the staining was done yesterday it was past midnight and the front room smelled like New Jersey.
(Note: ordinarily I wouldn't fuss over this, but I wanted the headboard smooth enough to do proper French polish on. I still do. We'll see how it goes.)
At least the majority of the sanding is out of the way, but good Lord that's a pain in the tuchus, finding that out. No pictures yet. I'll try and get some tonight.
- 220-grit sandpaper
- fine grit sponge (equivalent to 320 grit sandpaper)
- extra fine grit sponge (up to around 400 grit, I think)
- really fine grit sponge (went up to about 500 grit, I think)
- a clean painter's rag to remove the sawdust
- a damp rag to raise some of the wood hairs
- 220-grit again to remove what felt like the hairs
- clean rag again
- a tack cloth this time to remove more of the sawdust
- a rag moistened in denatured alcohol to remove the rest of the sawdust
Worth noting: did you take high school chemistry? Did they teach you that if you have to sniff a sample you shouldn't put it under your nose, but put it near your nose and wave the fumes towards your face with your hand so you wouldn't get smacked with the worst of the stuff if it turned out to be painful or dangerous? I did. And yet I somehow forgot to do this when I was checking the rag to make sure it had enough alcohol on it. Don't do that.
Anyway, after the alcohol rag I let things dry a bit, then came back and put the water-based pre-stain conditioner on the headboard and both of the leg pieces. (There's only so much room to dry these things out properly, so the slat pieces and the rails will get done later.) I was happy when I left the room and spent some time playing XCOM: Enemy Within. Then I went back in and...
Well, the conditioner was nice and all, but it seemed to have raised wood hairs again. I nearly cried. I'd been wearing a respirator mask to keep the sawdust out all day, and my arms were sore in places, and I'd gotten the wood as smooth as bone, and now this? I did my best to go over things again with the 220-grit paper, then got out the stain and a staining pad and dosed the headboard and the legs anyway and wiped the extra off fifteen minutes later. I'll see if it needs sanding again tonight before I start anything with the shellac, but by the time the staining was done yesterday it was past midnight and the front room smelled like New Jersey.
(Note: ordinarily I wouldn't fuss over this, but I wanted the headboard smooth enough to do proper French polish on. I still do. We'll see how it goes.)
At least the majority of the sanding is out of the way, but good Lord that's a pain in the tuchus, finding that out. No pictures yet. I'll try and get some tonight.
