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   RoyinMD | Feb 21, 2003 04:44am | #1

   Hey Brian,

   My finishing area is my shop, I do not have a seperate area. Cramps my plans sometimes, actually requires a plan for the day if finishing is involved. I save the staining and polly for the end of the day if possable, if I hadn't made to much of a dusty mess.

   I heat a detached garage with a kerosene heater,  the original one was not strong enough 9800 btu(?) so I bought a larger one 20,000 btu (?). I haven't run both at the same time for a couple of years. If I had the room for it I would put in a woodstove. I'm a part time woodworker so weekends is my main time. If the weather is really cold I will start the heater at 9 or 10:00 pm on a Friday night and let the sucker run all night. Morning coffee and ready to go.

   Spring to fall woodworking season is so much easier. Winter knocks out the short shop trips after work and dinner. Bummer, guess I gotta pull out a guitar instead.

   Enjoy, Roy

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   Tag | Feb 21, 2003 05:47pm | #2

   Yeah, my finishing area is my shop also, right now.  Do you just heat it up real good with the propane, then shut it off and let the residual heat stay in overnight with the fumes?  Do you ever finish large projects all at once?  Since you mentioned poly, I'm assuming you wipe or brush it on, right?

   I'm hoping to set up a new(to me) shop, and I want to avoid if possible a big expensive heat make up unit, since it's just me.  I spray with an HVLP system, which doesn't make that much overspray.  I'm actually hoping to get away with a house furnace off in a separate room for finishing heat, and a separate heat source for the shop, like a Reznor suspended gas heater, or maybe radiant floor heat. 

   BTW, what kind of guitar?

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   RoyinMD | Feb 21, 2003 09:08pm | #3

   Fumes, that reminds me of one of my old jokes. When people ask me "are you afraid of an explosion", I reply "No, I'll pass out long before an explosion." I have been thinking of getting a Carbon Monoxide detector for the garage, I have two in my house. I usally go by how it smells and am I getting a headache. Frankly I get more headaches at my office work than I do in the garage. The garage is old and leaky enough.

   How long I run the keroseen heater depends on the weather and how cold it is. I usally leave it on during the day while working (unless it really warms up) because of the extra smell if its' turned off. I'm sure I have pushed the lower temperture limits of poly many times with no ill effects that I've noticed. I brush most of the time and use the spray can on some smaller projects. Never tried the wipe on type. A couple of weeks ago I did hold off an extra 24 hours for a first coat of poly because the second coat of stain just did not look and feel right.

   Large projects all at once? Really depends on the project, mood and energy level that day. I have started finishing in the morning and stopped for the day whenever its finished.

   Guitar never, its' guitars. I have one electric/acoustic, two electrics and two amps. No real high dollar ones, I've been playing about 3 years. Fingerpicking acoustic most of the time.

   Enjoy, Roy