Johncs
3rd May 2009, 06:46 PM
After many adventures not pertinent to the question to hand, I think I'm ready to finish a couple of table tops.
I've never done this before.
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The tables are two end tables, and those pics are of one of the tops. The wood is Tassie Oak, with Jarrah trim. The Tassie Oak was laminated with biscuits, the trim was added later without biscuits.
I've done the first sanding with the ROS loaded with 120, and the trim with 80 grit held in a 50cm piece of concave moulding; the trim had a hole where some Jarrah had splintered out o it, and I needed to take off a few mm. Picture 2607 shows where the hole was. It's still visible, and I tried to capture it with the lighting.
I plan on going ahead with 120 (trim), 180, 240 and 340.
The finish, on recommendation from Carbatec, is to be Danish Oil which they happily supplied. I don't intend to stain this work.
I had planned on applying the first coat accompanied with much sanding, so as to fill the pores in the wood and, so I hope, the sap run in Picture 2606. The third pic shows the whole tabletop artfully arranged on the bonnet of the Two Seater.
On further thought, it seemed to me that having Jarrah dust over the Tassie Oak, and vice versa, might not be a Good Look.
What to the experts think?
I've also read that the endgrain is going to drink up the Danish Oil and maybe look very different. The suggested countermeasure is to sand to the next higher grit.
Should I do this? or or is blond shellac the solution to both? Or something else?
I also intend finishing the top before assembly, it seems to me less hassel than assembling and then fiddling in tight corners.
I've never done this before.
104166 104167 104168
The tables are two end tables, and those pics are of one of the tops. The wood is Tassie Oak, with Jarrah trim. The Tassie Oak was laminated with biscuits, the trim was added later without biscuits.
I've done the first sanding with the ROS loaded with 120, and the trim with 80 grit held in a 50cm piece of concave moulding; the trim had a hole where some Jarrah had splintered out o it, and I needed to take off a few mm. Picture 2607 shows where the hole was. It's still visible, and I tried to capture it with the lighting.
I plan on going ahead with 120 (trim), 180, 240 and 340.
The finish, on recommendation from Carbatec, is to be Danish Oil which they happily supplied. I don't intend to stain this work.
I had planned on applying the first coat accompanied with much sanding, so as to fill the pores in the wood and, so I hope, the sap run in Picture 2606. The third pic shows the whole tabletop artfully arranged on the bonnet of the Two Seater.
On further thought, it seemed to me that having Jarrah dust over the Tassie Oak, and vice versa, might not be a Good Look.
What to the experts think?
I've also read that the endgrain is going to drink up the Danish Oil and maybe look very different. The suggested countermeasure is to sand to the next higher grit.
Should I do this? or or is blond shellac the solution to both? Or something else?
I also intend finishing the top before assembly, it seems to me less hassel than assembling and then fiddling in tight corners.