Finishing Tips for Great Results
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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⚙️ SHOW NOTES - EPISODE #128: The last few episodes Tom has serendipitously been building a designer table with you. In this episode he shows how he used a relatively easy finishing method that looks museum quality. He then caps off the achievement with the grand unveiling of the finished table. Check it out! (Closed Captioned)
⚙️ RELATED VIDEO RESOURCES:
Full project series:
1) From Simple Leg to Designer Leg: • From Simple Leg to Des...
2) How to Sharpen and Use a Veneer Saw: • How to Sharpen and Use...
3) How to Make a Designer Table Top: • How to Make a Designer...
4) How to Make Inlay Lines: • How to Make Inlay Lines
5) Finishing Tips for Great Results: • Finishing Tips for Gre...
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I call this project "levelling up with the McLaughlin's!". Tom is an awesome teacher!
Thanks Stuart!! 👍😎
Love the old school finishes .Good topic
Awesome videos Tom! I have been binge watching your videos - priceless information. Most people would charge an arm and a leg for information of this quality. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Thanks Jim, I really appreciate it! Although I don’t know how you can watch so many, I can hardly watch myself for a minute! Glad you find a lot of value in it. We have some nice courses planned for this year too, so I’m excited to get started. Thanks for being with us! 👍😎
I get a very nice finish: thin seal coat of shellac, then 2 applications Poly-x using 4-0 steel wool to rub the 2nd one in. Really beautiful.
Nice, I haven’t tried “poly-x”. Typically the poly finishes I’ve used in the past result in a naturally harder finish (due to the poly hardness) which tends not to respond well to rubbing out with 4-0 steel wool…unless it is in some kind of blend where it works better…I’m assuming Poly-x is a blend? Thanks! 👍
@@EpicWoodworking Osmo Poly-x satin.
Tom, as always really appreciate the great instruction on a completely (to me) new method. Yet it’s been around a really long time. There’s a far cry from another guy on RUclips I saw recently who makes this whole table top with all kinds of “dubious” methods and then at the end is like “then just slap on some poly and you’re good to go!” Nothing against the DIYer but it’s good to get some actual valid info👍
Haha, yeah, thank you I appreciate your kind words! RUclips can be a lot like Forrest Gump’s Mom said, “You never know what you’re gonna get!” 😎
Aloha Tom, you are live during my workday so I tune in and enjoy after dinner 8PM HST. Mahalo, learning much.
That’s awesome Bill, thanks for watching! I could use some of your warm ocean breezes right now, we’ll be be having -5 degrees tonight! I appreciate you being there with us 👍😎
Found your channel today, already saved quite a bit of your videos in my Watch later playlist. Lots of in depth information in a fun way. About to do my first veneering (a pair of speakers) - very excited, then on to finishing it! Watched your veneer sawing video. Learned a lot, will learn more from this one and the others ive saved. Priceless, thank you!
Thanks Dan! We enjoy doing it and we’re glad to have you along and hear you find it inspiring you to try some new techniques. Thanks for watching and being with us! 👍😎
@@EpicWoodworking veneer sawing and veneering worked well! Currently waiting on first coat of shellac to dry :D (won't be long haha)
Thank you so much for offering this content, Tom and Kris. I have learned so much and am consistently inspired to push further after watching Tom at work. 🙏
That’s awesome to hear Chris, I’m so glad you enjoy it and find it pushes you to go further. I am in the early stages of learning to play guitar and it’s stretching and pushing me in a whole other area…that seems unrelated but I think it is all related somehow. Architecture, or furniture design, was once famously described as “frozen music”, a description I like thinking about. I’m sure you are playing some great songs yourself. Thanks for watching and spending time with us! 👍😎
today, I sprayed the final coat of amber shellac 1.5 lb cut on a wooden panel that I mount Christian ikons on. Thanks to Tom for his many episodes on Shellac. I will eventually rug it out with 4 ought steel wool and put finishing wax on it. I love working with shellac, the cleanup of the spray gun is so easy and there are no dangerous rags that might catch on fire because you're using denatured alcohol. This has been a game changer for my ikons. The finishing can be done within a couple of days instead of a week using poly. Kudos!!!
Oh that’s great to know Ron, I’m so glad you are enjoying the pleasure of using shellac! What kind of Christian icons do you work with? I have made some small Wenge crosses in the past…which now that I think of it we showed during an SNL about Lap Joints. Thanks for watching and being with us! 👍😎
@@EpicWoodworking Hi Tom, sorry for the delay in replying. I never dreamed you would respond haha. Eastern Orthodox is the church I attend. I have mounted ikons depicting bible stories like Peter sinking after walking on water and the woman at the well from John 4. I also have made several saint icons, St Basil the Great, Athanasius, Kallistos and of course ones of the Lord and the Theotokos. I have been paid for a pair I made for a friend but mostly I make them for gifts. I buy the prints from a monastery in Boston. Great guys. I mount them on glued panels, usually spruce, and cut them and router a keyhole and a roundover edge. I stain them with red mahogany oil stain and now I shellac them and rub them out and wax, thanks to you. I was using poly and it was too plastic looking but it still looked good. Thanks for asking. I can send you a few photos if you would like to see them. I had never worked with wood before. I was a nurse and a computer programmer/analyst.
Hi Tom, the designer table has been an excellent learning series on SNL. I learned so much,
thank you for sharing your knowledge and skills. If you wanted, Kris could combine the past
5 weeks together into a course and post it on the website, just a thought.
I feel shellac is the best finish, most of the time. Your method using shellac is excellent, very helpful and will greatly improve my finishing skills thank you, oh the french polishing method also. Looking forward to new project courses you and Kris have planned this year. See you on SNL.
Thanks Steve! It would be good to turn those SNLs into an edited video at least. For it to work as a course, I think I would have needed to have gone into more detail in places that were breezed over a bit.
I’m liking forward to getting into the new projects as well, thanks for being with us!! 👍😎
I absolutely love this channel. I have learned so much and enjoy the friendly atmosphere. I hope this spring to get into a thawed out shop and take a course or two or three. Kudos to Tom and Kris. This is the best woodworking channel on the net
Thank you Ron, that means more than you know. I (we) receive so much by opening our doors in this way, and love the community it fosters. So glad to have you with us, thanks for being there! 👍😎
@@EpicWoodworking I have to have some Shop Night Live at least once a day now. You guys have become family.
WOW. great class. Answered so many questions. I sprayed some shellac last week after leaning how on you show. Looks wonderful. Thanks from Moultonborogh
Awesome Mike, yes, I love Shellac and sharing the experience with others. Among, if not the best finish ever! Thanks 👍😎
Thank you, outstanding finishing tutorial
Thanks Bob, I’m glad you enjoyed it! Every time I talk about finishing I always feel like I could have said so much more…so many variations and method options, I’ll never stop learning myself and the historic methods can be so interesting too. Thanks for being with us! 👍😎
Great session. Very useful techniques. I love me some shellac!
Beautiful table, too.
Thanks!!
Thanks Jerry, gotta love shellac! That table surprised me a little, the colors came together after the finishing better than I expected. But then again, the piece always transforms beautifully with that first coat of finish…never gets old! 😎👍
Excellent video. Love all of your videos. Thanks from Australia
Thank you Peter, so great to know you are there, with us, all the way from Australia! 👍😎
Thanks heaps. Great series on this table. What's next.
Thanks Danny, I’m glad you enjoyed it! I’m not sure yet for SNL next week. I’m getting ready for a Fine Woodworking article photoshoot next Thursday and Friday, the Low Pencil Post Bed project…if you saw that one when we did it a little over a year ago. And the next course will likely be a hanging cabinet, with three style door options, should be fun. Thanks for being a part of it! 👍😎
There is a DEF lacquer has a better than average spray nozzle on their cans
Thanks! That was my memory of using the Deft years ago…obviously inferior spray nozzle on the Watco Lacquer can…make me wonder about the quality of the lacquer as well, although not likely an indicator 😎
Damn! That top!
Yeah, that one came together with the finish better than I expected! It’s like the finish breathes life into the piece…always pleasantly surprising and never gets old. Thanks for watching and being with us! 👍😎
Thanks to the camera lady, why don’t we get to put a face to that wonderful voice?
Check out our website, you may see her radiant visage there 😎
Deft comes in a spray can
Thank you, yes, I remember using it thirty years ago. I’m glad to hear it’s still available, I’ll have to pick up a can or two! 👍
Can we get a face to the camera lady?
She already has a face 😎. We tried turning the camera on her once and she was less than comfortable being in front of the lens. If I could add a photo here I would. But you can also come to one of our Epic Weekends this fall where one of the perks is getting to meet the camera lady! 👍 Thanks for watching and being with us!