In April Great Western Saw held an open house with several reps in attendance. I shot a video of the Saw Stop demo with my phone. The rep in the video makes me laugh, his body language is pretty clear regarding his comfortability level with a tablesaw. The "Brent" he mentions is Brent Loucks, a local DJ.
Thanks to Jon and the rest of the staff for putting on this event, and for their excellent customer service.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Refinish
I had a twenty year old table come in over the weekend for a refinish. These jobs work well as gap fillers between large projects or as a mindless task to warm up with on a Monday morning.
The table is disassembled, the skirts carefully marked for orientation and the hardware collected into a labeled container.
I used to use chemical strippers but have since switched to sanding the old finish off. A worn belt on the stroke sander works faster, cheaper, and with a better result. Furthermore, I don't have to deal with the chemical.
The top is then clamped to my benchtop and the edge profile is cleaned.
I use a card scraper to remove the old lacquer and to clean right into the inside corner of the fillet, then a piece of sandpaper finishes the job.
The entire edge is done, the top inspected closely and the flaws marked. The top is put back on the stroke sander for a final clean up.
A coat of Watco Fruitwood danish oil is applied, the original colour. If this were any other species I would go ahead and spray two coats of lacquer, but because red oak is so pourous I need to wait. The surface needs to be wiped down periodically as oil seeps out then finally cures.
After the oil has dried I spray a coat of post-cat nitrocellulose lacquer. Twenty minutes later I sand it with a 220 sanding sponge, and give it a second coat.
Assembled and ready for another twenty years!
The table is disassembled, the skirts carefully marked for orientation and the hardware collected into a labeled container.
I used to use chemical strippers but have since switched to sanding the old finish off. A worn belt on the stroke sander works faster, cheaper, and with a better result. Furthermore, I don't have to deal with the chemical.
The top is then clamped to my benchtop and the edge profile is cleaned.
I use a card scraper to remove the old lacquer and to clean right into the inside corner of the fillet, then a piece of sandpaper finishes the job.
The entire edge is done, the top inspected closely and the flaws marked. The top is put back on the stroke sander for a final clean up.
A coat of Watco Fruitwood danish oil is applied, the original colour. If this were any other species I would go ahead and spray two coats of lacquer, but because red oak is so pourous I need to wait. The surface needs to be wiped down periodically as oil seeps out then finally cures.
After the oil has dried I spray a coat of post-cat nitrocellulose lacquer. Twenty minutes later I sand it with a 220 sanding sponge, and give it a second coat.
Assembled and ready for another twenty years!
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