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splinter

You found a stash of nicely grained wood, that's for sure. You'll be able to make some great stands with it. In order to not lose the grain by using lacquer, can you use tung oil? Also...have you ever tried marine varnish? I'm wondering if it would completely seal the wood, but let the grain show through. I don't really know anything about wood sealers, so the lacquer and marine varnish may actually have the same properties in them, but I just thought I'd ask.

I'm also curious about the "hot sauce stand" - did you used to sell hot sauce?

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Jay

TB.. thanks for the lesson!

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Jay, Other than the speed which I never thought of, thanks TB, the larger wheeled unit just has a little more horse power. You know how men like horepower. Tim Taylor would probably rewind the armeture and tweak it for maybe 500 more RPM's.

Tony, I bought it a tool shop. PM me for details.

Splinter, I have not use tung oil on it yet. That is my next project, to see if that will work. Somone had suggested that also.

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splinter

Al,
I've used tung oil when refinishing furniture. I think it's easy to work with, and it also comes in high gloss or low gloss/satin finishes. I don't know how well it repells water, but I'd be interested to know how it works for your applications.

Marsha

DavidN

Al, I envy your wood working skills. Its something I know would be very enjoyable to me.

Brian

Al , if your in Northern Michigan next week stop by with the boards and I'll split em half for ya

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Thomas_J.

Al,
Just looking at the pics of all those different types of wood you have there, is stirring up a long ago lost love. I was in the wood working profession for fifteen years doing arichetchtural work and custom wood work. I worked with quite a few different varities of wood and loved to just feel the wood with my fingers after it came out of the planer or drum sander. After fifteen years though, the dust from all those long hours of shaping and sanding, finally caught up with me. All I can do is look back now and remember how much fun it was.
Thomas J.

splinter

After Al posted the picture, I decided I needed to go and pay my brother in law a visit. He has a woodworking business and has a lot of wood scraps. I'm by no means a craftsman...er, craftswoman, but I like to do little projects. I picked out some scraps today, and ended up with a really nice piece of ribbon mahogany.

Thomas_J,
I can see how working in the business took it's toll. My sister and nephew have a horrible time when they're at the shop, because of the airborne sawdust. It brings on a major allergic reaction. He has every kind of dust collector, exhaust fan, etc., but there's still usually a bit of a haze in the air. It can mess up the lungs.

Marsha

Bonsainut

Check out this old thread!

http://www.memobug.com/treebay/cgi-...4642994&start=7

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