Staining MDF ??????

[Sturdee]

[i]Originally posted by MrChips
Sorry I'm not. Just a wood butcher.

I think with your attitude to life we could make you an honorary Aussie.

BTW the photo showing your cat after the treatment is much better.


Peter

[arose62]

This is a bit left-field, but as other guys are posting about turning stone on their woodlathes, I thought I'd suggest using a lapidary technique on the scratchy-cat problem.

What if you placed the cat in a tumble-dryer, along with a quantity of sand, and tumbled it until smooth?

I've seen some stones and rocks utterly transformed with this technique, and since a cat is much softer, it should work well, and in a much shorter time than required for lapidary.

Cheers,
Andrew

[MrChips]

It is an honor.
There may come a time when I might need dual citizenship.

Hager Hay

And now it's a flying Cat. No it's a Cow?

[AlexS]

Tried echidnas suggetion of carpet around the legs to stop the cat scratching. It worked, but the cat couldn't stand up.

A win-win situation.

[Sturdee]

Originally posted by arose62

What if you placed the cat in a tumble-dryer, along with a quantity of sand, and tumbled it until smooth

A concrete mixer would be better - just put gladwrap over the opening to keep the cat in and fresh as well.


Peter

[Driver]

I'm joining in a bit late here, fellas but it occurs to me that no-one has yet suggested either hand-planing (where are you Derek?) or the cyclone treatment (come in Wayne).

Maybe we should have a poll on the most effective cat varnishing techniques (Stinky?)

Hager - Aussie-ness is a state of mind, mate - and your mind is quite clearly in the appropriate state - and I ain't talkin' about Texas.

Col

[R. McCarthy]

:mad: I'm not a spoiled sport, and like a laugh as much as the next bloke, but I think the responses to an otherwise sensible post really degenerated into abject stupidity. Where are the moderators ??

[behindblueeyes]

Congratulations to everyone on their "stupidity". I have not had such a good laugh in a while.

Well done.

[Sturdee]

Where are the moderators ??

Varnishing cats, where else.


Peter.

[Termite]

Ha! You all thought I was crazy when I did my bit about Happy dust in a cyclone. I now feel quite sane after reading this post.
Maybe I'll try chewing on a bit of wormwood for tea tonight.
Regards
Termite

ps. wormwood is what they make Absynth out of, a now illegal
drink.

[JOHN_BOY]

Is the same procedure applied to the edge of MDF?
I have found it difficult to sand smooth the 'end grain'

Originally posted by Shane Watson
Commercially this is how soft furnishing manufactures colour MDF.
Cause they use a lot of it and most unsuspecting customers don't even realise they just bought a lounge with MDF arms as opposed to timber arms.. :eek:


First they seal the MDF with a sanding sealer. This is sanded and the then the top coats are applied with a tint (colour) mixed into the laqcuer and thin coats are applied using spray setup until the desireddepth and darkness has been achieved. Sometimes this is done over two or three seperate coats lightly sanding inbetween. After the chosen colour has been achieved usually just one final coat of clear is applied sometimes two but usually the almighty dollar dictates.

Anyway, thats how the commercial guys do it and thats how I did it. You can actually achieve results that do easily fool people into thinking it is real timber but there is no substitute for the real thing!

Cheers

[Shane Watson]

Of course.....


You can get a specially formulated sealer for MDF but I just use the sealer I use normally. Usually once the edges of the MDF are sealed they sand smooth relatively easily. Its not an easy product to finish, but with experience its a snap.