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   BG | Oct 02, 2009 12:41pm | #1

   Donbean46,

   I use a water based poly on the poplar before applying stain to the other parts.

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   MikeHennessy | Oct 02, 2009 01:53pm | #2

   Probably too late for this, but I usually stain the fronts before I glue 'em up. At this point, a small brush and some patience will be required. ;-(

   Mike Hennessy
   Pittsburgh, PA
   Everything fits, until you put glue on it.

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   donbean46 | Oct 02, 2009 06:56pm | #5

   Thanks for the tip, fortunately I havent glued them up yet so I could stain the fronts first, sometimes I just make things too difficult when there is a simple solution

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   MikeHennessy | Oct 02, 2009 07:01pm | #6

   No problem. FWIW, I've never found a little stain slopped into the joints to adversely affect gluing.Mike HennessyPittsburgh, PAEverything fits, until you put glue on it.

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   SteveSchoene | Oct 02, 2009 02:01pm | #3

   As BG says, you can pre-finish the sides.  Shellac  or lacquer would also work.  Just don't use oil or an oil-based finish or you might smell it in the drawers for a long time. 

   But "period" Queen Anne drawer sides wouldn't have had any finish. You can mask off the drawer sides, but you still have the vexing question of where to run the tape.  One solution is to run it at the base of the pins.  You wouldn't get the extra contrast of having stained pins but to get that would require really picky work masking or finishing the tails and not the pins.  I doubt I would attempt that. 

   Others may want to chime in with thoughts about where to transition the stain. 

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   Senomozi | Oct 02, 2009 05:17pm | #4

   One alternative would be to apply the stain to the pins with an artist's brush. With very little stain on the brush I doubt there would be much capillary action from the end grain of the pins to the long grain of the tails.

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   bones | Oct 03, 2009 09:48pm | #7

   I did a cherry hutch with maple drawers and taped mine off with painters tape trimed each one with a razor blade and finished without a hitch.  Just takes a little time to tape it off. 

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   WillGeorge | Oct 06, 2009 02:41pm | #8

   Not sure if it is correct or even applies.

   I have Popular Woodworking issue #179.. November 2009.

   One subject was 'Why REAL 18th-century Finishes Look Really Wrong'.

   Just something to look at.. ANY idea is worth some thought!

   Is wrong really right? I think so, SOMETIMES...

   
   

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   Edited 10/6/2009 7:44 am by WillGeorge

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   SteveSchoene | Oct 06, 2009 07:47pm | #9

   This could be an interesting topic, but it is buried here at the bottom of this thread.  Why not start a new post.  Also, for those of us who haven't read the article, it would help if you could give the gist of the article.  (Don't plagerize it, just give a few points to help us review the concept.) 

   Edited 10/6/2009 1:09 pm ET by SteveSchoene

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   Jimurock | Oct 06, 2009 10:25pm | #10

   Might be a bit awkward -- it's by Adam Cherubini -- and very interesting.

   Jim

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   WillGeorge | Oct 07, 2009 10:07pm | #11

   This could be an interesting topic, but it is buried here at the bottom of this thread.

   I have no idea what is correct for any work by anybody.. My family likes mine and others I make for.. I just try to do my own thing that somebody will like.. OK, so it is free and not a test for money expended by them!

   I just thought it was a good article.. NOT knocking FWW. Just another thought on a subject.

   I have Ideas but most folks think I'm nuts!

   Just give a few points to help us review the concept..

   My wife, long passed, was the most beautiful woman on earth to me.. I'd bet some man would find her less.. His loss! She was something to behold and then some!

   Sort of like working wood! Some like and others do not! I can live with both sides.. We are Human!

   I just thought the writing had something to thing about.

    

    

    

   Edited 10/7/2009 3:24 pm by WillGeorge