Does anyone ever get the feeling that this finishing thing is not worth the effort?
I have ruined several sets of acrylic nails, applied by a lovely girl at my wifes beauty salon.
Rubbed my fingers to the bone with sand paper, dryed my skin out with white spirit ( or was that the vodka?) And the cost is totaly prohibitive. For example using my wife’s old vests to buff up, and apply wax costs me an arm and a leg replacing them.
I am considering using a finisher for my furniture, especially the complicated stuff. I dread getting any areas which are not quite right. No one else can see them except me, but when the item is just to the left of the TV screen, it sort of keeps drawing your eye to the little dull patch that wasn’t there when the sun was shining on it two hours ago. So I get up and give it a rub. Fine. Then I see another blemish that cathches my eye, but is it realy there???????
. My Den is full to the rafters with furniture worth millions of $ due to this problem.
I am considering sending everything out to be professionally finished from now on!
What do you think???
Mike
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Mike,
You are using your wife's old vests to buff up!??
Totally wrong. You are supposed to use your old undershirts and hankerchiefs. Make that simple switch and all will be right with your world.
And here's a great idea - on days that you are going to be doing finishing, have acrylic nails applied only to the hand that you wont be using to hold sandpaper. See how simple?
Also stop watching Television. That's another source of your problem.
Best,
VL
Geeez Mike, I always loved finishing with acrylic lacquer because I could get acrylic nail treatments immediately every time I forgot to put my gloves on in the spray booth! Pearlescents really made my girlfriends jealous when I showed them my stash of samples from Engelhard (I used them in exotic topcoats).
What you need to do is to accept your plight. I have runs in the stern transom of my mahogony boat, and I'm too anxious to get on the water to worry about rubbing them out. Its good therapy to leave the runs in there. I find solace in knowing that I could fix it, and that is sooo much easier and less laborious than actually fixing the runs (besides, the front of the boat is buffed to mirror gloss).
Oh, and yes, I too have Millions of dollars worth of furniture in my house for the same reason (only you and I know that truth), so your not alone.
Accept it, young grasshopper . . . - JB
"The furniture designer is an architect." - Maurice DuFrenes (French Art Deco furniture designer, contemporary of Ruhlmann)
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It ammmmmmaizes me that less people know about finishing wood than they do about applying acrylic nails.........******
I just love this forum...not just the finishing one but all of them.....
( I can't wait to see if Forest Girl....who realy lives in Alaska in all that snow and frost....sends her reply to my question.....???)
still life is lots of fun and that's how it should be.
Today I made a grove in two sides and the backof a table drawer..to make the slot for the drawer bottom. I used the wrong size cutter and positioned it in the wrong place.......But the grove itself was wonderful...
Anyway I cussed and spat...sat down and smoked a cigar, had some black coffee, repaired the cock up, sanded it down...and fixed the problem....
You might think well that was swell, you fixed the problem????!!!! Well done...
Well just to make sure I would not look inside the drawer at the mistake I glued the damb thing shut so I can't look inside it...( I may get my brad gun out tomorrow to make sure)
I told my wife it was a table with a false drawer.........
Its now in the den with the other stuff!!!!!!
It's a good life isn't it?
Mike
On "American Chopper" they send everything out to be painted - it comes back it looks great. They design, they weld, they fabricate,...they send it out. That show always fires me up to go work in the shop. I've thought about how nice it would be if I had that same thing going on with my woodworking - just send it out to be finished.
But that's too easy. Buy Flexner's book and slog through it, working on your weak areas.
BTW,...acrylic nails? are you talking about,...like,....fingernails? Why the heck would fingernails need to be acrylic? I would like to see something that made fingernails always stay the exact same length and never have to be cut, and that being a length that wouldn't interfere with guitar playing. That's the only time that ever notice that I have fingernails - when it messes up my guitar.
You are telling me you didn't know that the best false nails are acrylic?
I think you should change your beauty salon...mine does a good job at a reasonable price...
I will look up the finishing book you mention....
have fun
Mike
No Strongbo, that's an area of knowledge that's still a mystery to me.
I did have a girlfriend once who always wanted me to paint her toenails. To get what I wanted I had to pull a little toenail-painting duty from time to time, but that's about the best I can do.
Have a good day, Ed
Forest girl is in Puget Sound ... that's near Seattle, pretty far south of Alaska and not very snowy.
Just do what all persons who dislike finishing - use danish oil. Buy a 50 gallon drum of tung oil and dip ererything.
Lynn...
will that make my acrylic nails fall off?????
Mike
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