Anyone know what this is?

besides a project I'm working on? LOL

Hog

It's a tape measure. What'd I win bro?

LOL, well I was talkin about the wood under the tape measure? I knew I shoulda posted the other pic... LOL

Hog

Spanish Cedar?

black walnut?

Black Oak....

Charlie

Arkansas.. LOL as in Black Oak..

Hog

Spalted Maple.

In the bottom board, I see an image of Rugrunner with bunny ears.

Or maybe it's Rick with bunny ears...

Now that I look closer, it looks more like a native cherry with some spalting goin' on.......

Ha Gandalf Got it.. did you see my post on the other site? "What I do in my Spare Time"

Here's a link to the page on this project.. I've got some more pics to upload but will hold off for now...

http://tinyurl.com/pkm2t 

Hog

There be some nice grain in them thar boards. Looking forward to the finished project.

Speaking of 'finish', what are your plans for this particular wood? I use to do a couple of coats of medium amber shellac in, say, a five pound cut, just to give the maple a little color.......

I haven't worked with shellac in any of my projects to date.. I don't have a place for proper drying and keeping the dirt/dust off long enough.. I probably could set something up in the basement and do this one up with a shellac coating? usually I just use stain and polly with 3 coats of polly and #000 steel wool between coats...

The Mrs. and I have talked about wether to add a lite stain of leave it natural for the finish?

Hog

Hog;

Since shellac is cut with alcohol, it is a relatively fast drying coating, providing you don't lay it too heavily. Standard cut is 3# flake to 1 gallon of alcohol and this is usually what is sold in the hardware store. This tends to be a little on the heavy side, so I cut it further with denatured alcohol to a 1# or 2# mix. Colors range from 'Blonde' (clear), 'Amber' (great on warm woods - try it in some Fir and it doesn't look 100 years old within 12 months), to unrefined (medium to dark brown - my favorite on maple).

You can also buy it in aerosol cans for small projects. I use ammonia to clean up my natural bristle brushes - its a lot cheaper than alcohol.

Hey, I could go on for hours about finishes. Here is a good link for the basics:

http://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/author/zinsser/shellac.shtm 

Have fun Russ.

Should read:

(great on warm woods - try it in some Fir and tell me if it doesn't look 100 years old within 12 months)

geesh, still no 'edit' feature........

Thanks for the link Gan!

Hog

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