Chestnut Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Wow that cherry looks great!. The more and more i see cherry furniture pieces the more i start thinking "walnut move over i like cherry better now". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gee-dub Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Whats the location of the tearout? Depending on the "show" factor I would cut out a notch, glue in an oversized piece of similar color and grain and mill back down. If the tearout was on an arc you can help avoid this by always routing downhill. For template routing I tend toward top/bottom bearing bits to serve this purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post estesbubba Posted June 5, 2016 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Last night I glued the Dominos into all the rails so final assembly will go quicker. This morning I cut the footboard panels to size and they fit perfectly! The center panels look odd because of drum sanding against the grain with double passes in opposite directions and final sanding should take care of it. A few of the panel boards look like sapwood in the photos but it's all heartwood and the phone camera exaggerates the color differences. I'm very happy how they turned out and my wife stopped in the shop and loves them. Can't wait to see them with finish on them. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post estesbubba Posted June 5, 2016 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Decided to wipe down a section with mineral spirits. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Wow. That is a great look. Can't wait to see it all finished up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Wow, Mike, thats some awesome looking cherry !! Are you going to spray finish this beast? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 6 hours ago, Chestnut said: Wow that cherry looks great!. The more and more i see cherry furniture pieces the more i start thinking "walnut move over i like cherry better now". Different beasts completely. Cherry I put into the blondes category. By segregation, I get a lot of favorites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdwerker Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Cherry is in the redheads category ! Gingers can be an acquired taste..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Super nice Mike! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Wow, Mike! That's looking great! Sent from my XT1058 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 This looks fantastic. I really want to get working with cherry. It's not my favorite looking wood, but that's only because walnut is so awesome sauce. Not cherry's fault. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 That is some awesome figure there sir! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estesbubba Posted June 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2016 Well sanding the headboard and footboard was no fun and took over 5 hours. Good thing I spread it over several evenings and cranked some tunes through the headphones. Since the panels are 5/8" thick space balls weren't going to work so I used 1/2" backer rod which compresses very thin. Last night I went through a dry run of assembling and clamping and it couldn't have gone smoother. Since the Dominoes are already glued into the rails and dividers it cuts the assembly time quite a bit. So I decided to suck it up and glue and assemble the footboard. Well the top rail decided to be a pain when it counted as the panels kept shifting out of the dados, the right Domino swelled like crap and didn't want to go in, then the top rail popped out of the left divider and the right side of the top rail hit the concrete (more on this later). Anyway no time to panic as the glue timer had started and I had to get it assembled and everything worked out in the end. 40 hours into these and it feels good to have one finally assembled. Still some sanding left on the curves but I think the small chamfer adds a lot to the look. Now to the errors during assembly. Since it took longer than I wanted I didn't mess with boards under the clamps so there are some marks. These will clean up by steaming with an iron. The dent on the bottom of the rail is another story. I can try using an iron but think it's too big. Any other ideas? My wife says leave it as it's character and looking at it when standing will be hard to see. I will be spraying these and might do it this weekend. I'm going with a coat of garnet shellac followed by satin waterborne poly. If I leave these standing on the floor with no support the HVLP won't blow them over will it? Guess I could do a test without any finish in the cup. The left test board is garnet shellac plus waterborne and the right is Minwax wipe on poly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted June 15, 2016 Report Share Posted June 15, 2016 Steam will at least reduce the size of that dent considerably. Don't sweat it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gee-dub Posted June 15, 2016 Report Share Posted June 15, 2016 A steam iron and a damp piece of paper towel can recover some surprisingly deep dents. After all that work I wouldn't take a chance on the thing standing on its own while finishing. Screw a block to the bottom of each foot and grab it with a parallel clamp to create a sort of outrigger. The headboard starting to fall over during finishing is all it would take to really set you back. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewyo Posted June 15, 2016 Report Share Posted June 15, 2016 This is really coming out terrific Mike. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted June 15, 2016 Report Share Posted June 15, 2016 For spraying them Mike, you could hang them from hooks put in the bottom of the feet? I'm not sure why this morning but, your pictures aren't showing up for me.. I'm assuming it's a "work connection" thing tho.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drzaius Posted June 15, 2016 Report Share Posted June 15, 2016 That shellac & waterborne sample looks great. I second what gee-dub says about support. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephThomas Posted June 15, 2016 Report Share Posted June 15, 2016 Finish looks good. I forget did you mention the joinery/connections you'll be using for the rails? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleedinblue Posted June 15, 2016 Report Share Posted June 15, 2016 I bet steaming it will bring some of it up. Anything that's left? Try to forget about and don't point it out to anyone, no one but you will ever notice it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post estesbubba Posted June 19, 2016 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 Steamed the dents which worked really well and sanded those areas. Put some "skis" on the feet to keep the footboard upright. Finish is garnet shellac followed by water based satin poly. Did the back (hidden) area of the footboard first with shellac and glad I did. I got a few runs because I wasn't moving fast enough. Went quicker on the front and it came out great. I sanded the back runs out and you can't see them after the topcoats. The cell pics really don't show the detail of the finish but my wife and I love it. I'm a long time Waterlox user and couldn't imagine wiping these beasts over several days. I sprayed the shellac at 2 and was completely done with topcoats by 8! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 Beautiful, Mike! Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 Looks great, Mike! The garnet shellac really makes that cherry glow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 Stunning work Mike! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodenskye Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 Mike, that turned out fantastic! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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