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    coming along well
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    Ratty, great work. I especially love your diamond style drawer plugs. Excellent

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    Thanks again guys, glad you are enjoying the show.
    Glad you like the diamond plugs in the draw Lignum, I thought they might be a bit different that the usual round plugs which would have looked wrong for this project. However i've also made a bit of a rod for my own back. The grain in the plugs should really follow the grain of the side which is going to leave me cutting the plugs on the 45deg, lots of end grain just dieing to chip off. If i can cut them sucessfuly i'll cut a heap more for 'just in case'.
    Today saw me sanding, sanding & more sanding - oh & i got the ebony plugs fitted into the table top.
    Not a lot to left to do now, just need to finish off the draw & some more sanding then its ready to be sprayed. I've never had any of my pieces sprayed before i've always gone down the road of applying by hand. Mostly because my experiences as a lad with spraying (spraying cars in the backyard that is) have been pretty horrendous, however i also really enjoy applying by hand, its like the final goodbye touch. From that moment it transforms from a project to a piece of furniture. But spraying is something that i've never done on furniture so its about time i did it, always something new to learn.

    Cheers, Ratty.

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    That looks absolutely fantastic. Your work looks clean and tidy. Great workmanship.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rattrap View Post
    ..... Mostly because my experiences as a lad with spraying (spraying cars in the backyard that is) have been pretty horrendous,
    ............ But spraying is something that i've never done on furniture so its about time i did it, always something new to learn.
    I can identify with both those comments.
    Several attempts at spraying cars over the years, none real flash.

    But my first mentor who was a cabinet maker showed me how to spray furniture laquer. Totally different.
    He made solid timber doors for kitchen cabinets and used either Mirrortone or Isoguard depending on which rep was giving the best deal at the time he needed more.
    Apart from the usual prevention of runs which is pretty basic, it was dead easy.
    The first coat raised the grain on the timber. A quick going over with 400 fixed that. Blow the dust off, and lay down the second and third coats.
    It dries real fast and is easy to apply.
    All of this was 30 odd years ago, so I was only a kid. But even "The kid" managed to not stuff it up.
    Spraying a car?
    The same "kid" stuffed that up numerous times.

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    Really nice features on this table The timbers used give some really great colour and the workmanship is very tidy. Id be proud of this one!
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    I've only come across this now, and while I don't normally like the Greene & Greene style at all, I really do like what you've done Rattrap I think what has won me is the mix of timbers.
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    Well the coffee table is all but finished. I decided on a shellac finish rather than the sprayed finish. I had a longer look at the offcut i tried the different finishes on & felt that the shellac really makes the blackwood glow, something that i really like. I've got another project started & that 1 will be a spray job instead.
    So at present its getting a few coats of shellac. So far a weak sanding sealing coat which sanded back at 400g then first coat at bout 1/2 str shellac.
    I'll post pics as soon as the finish is done.

    Cheers, Ratty.

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    I just found a pic of the top after its first coat of shellac on my mobile.

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    Looks good Ratty. Out of curiosity, if you had sprayed it, what lacquer would you have used?

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    Just the lacquer they have down at the community shed Lignum. Don't know much about it other than its a cellulose lacquer.

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    I don't quite understand something Rattrap. If you have the ability to apply a proper shellac finish, why would you even consider using a spray on one?
    I know why I use it.
    Because it gives my work a reasonable finish that I cannot do any other way.
    But you have choices.

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    "the ability to apply a proper shellac finish" might be stretching things a bit, a lot actually.
    More like i can paint it on with a fine brush then sand it back or rub it back with steel wool till i am sorta happy with the finish. But spraying seems to give quite a good finish, better than i can do with shellac & much faster as well.

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