NICE ! thanks for sharing some Photo's bogieb very nice very rewarding taking something and improving it, repairing it,saving it from the landfill. Good stuff keep it coming !
Stunning ! Well done bogie your obviously very good with finishing, the pieces I posted neither of them contain stain, the night table is just waxed and the oak top actually might contain a light staining, whitewash that my wife and sister did . The wax i used is fricking awesome if your going for natural wood that has a lot of character and just want to protect it some and bring out the wood grain or character. I will post what it is when i have the energy to dig through and find it .
Thanks Man , I found at a Country Club that I worked at 20 years ago there were only a few boards , must have been left over from a job or something , they were cleaning out an old out building and wanted to get rid of it so I grabbed it . I had it for several years before I figured out what to do with it .
Man I wish I had these skills. I can never make anything look nice, I just dont have the finishing skills (patience).
will711 I am surprised you would even think about setting your beer by your computer like that! It is a well known fact that computers are known for finishing off any alcoholic beverages sitting next to them. Happened to me many a time! Gary
Put these pics on the pellet forum, but thought I would share them here too. Am experimenting with coloring a piece of trim - mixing custom color "stain" for the leaves using markers then running the main color stain over the whole thing. The main color is a custom mix stain to match the bathroom cabinets and trim. This is just the practice piece as I have never worked with markers on wood before let alone mixing them to get more autumn leaf type of color. The panorama view makes it look like the wood is warped - but it is just me being a spaz while doing the picture. Filling in those stupid dots is going to be the hard part and I haven't figured that out yet. Probably will be able to use a very fine paint brush. Not thinking that they should have any color but should have just the wood stain but am happy to entertain other's ideas.
Very cool have never done that either "stupid dots" now bogieb how can dots be stupid ? Haaa could not help myself as far as what to do with them my first gut feeling (which dont me chit)would be for all of them to be a dark green ? Why hell i don't know . Try just staining them see how it looks , wont know until you try . Have seen this done before just curious what kind of markers ? anything special designed to do this or just regular markers , maybe Sharpe ? Do you clear coat after the markers to protect and seal it ? Just re-read it Panorama Spaz LoL I thought the wood was bent,warped ! Cool stuff keep em coming
Was the trim already carved with the design or did you do that too? It looks really neat. I think whatever you do the main stem line with, you should do the "stupid dots" as well.
And so long as you are doing them stupid dots, why not do the connecting vine also???? Seriously, it looks very nice!!!
I actually thought dark green too for the dots. I was also thinking a burnt orange or mustard yellow or even a dark bronze (the hardware in the bath is a Tuscan bronze). However, the markers are not sharp enough to get in there. The markers are Graffiti fabric markers that I already had. I would definitely put a good coat of polyurethane on it. I was unsure if the markers would survive the stain rubbed over them but they did, so assume they would survive the protective coating. The trim was already carved - got it at HD because they had the exact width I needed (1.75"). L*wes also has them in different widths. I wasn't specifically looking for patterned trim, it just happened to be exactly the width I was looking for and a pattern that I was okay with (there are other patterns, but nothing else I cared for). I tried to do the vines with markers, but again the markers aren't really sharp enough to get into them very well. If you look closely you can see darker and lighter areas on the vines - that is where I tried different colors but put in breaks so they would be easier to differentiate once I put on the stain. They are only a couple of hair-widths wide, so a very sharp brush will be needed. I'll probably have to go to craft paints for those. I do plan on experimenting and seeing if I can get those dots and vines filled in - just a matter of getting the paints and finding a time when I think I can color inside the lines again (very rare for me).
I was being a smarty with that suggestion! That trim would have looked great even without the paint accents and stain you put on it! You're just waking it up a notch or two!!! Again, very nice!
bought a rehab that had wood "siding" on some interior walls, I started removing it and it is 2 inch thick chestnut barn beams nailed to the walls. One side is rough sawn and the other was planed and facing out. Need to come up with something to build out of it.
SCORE ! Ironpony love chestnut as it has so much character just getting harder and harder to find with the having died off so long ago. Barn wood demo is about the only way to score it anymore. All of the rafters in my house are chestnut, only one side is semi-flat the rest is just round like it was in the forest some bark top hand hewed.
Wow just noticed you were from PO'Town , lived a while in the Hudson Valley my favorite was West Park NY probably 10 miles north on the west side of the Hudson. Rented a 75 acre farm in West Park and had a great life with growing all my own food ! Saw a few concerts in Poughkeepsie and remember it well , did they ever do anything with the railroad bridge that ran alongside the Mid Hudson Bridge ?
some projects I came across that seems the carpenter just rolled along with the personality of the wood.
