Alright so here's the lid. Last night I was able to
get two coats of stain on the entire project.
I'm about to shoot some clear.
I've got some
Target Coatings EM6000
clear
gloss acrylic lacquer.
I'm going to use that to spray
at least three coats.
Panels have been done for a little while
and
like I said I was able to get some
two coats on this last night.
Blotchiness, you know I've got pine going dark.
It's not the end of the world.
It looks a little dull right now but
once you get a couple coats of lacquer on it
and shine it up a little bit it will look alright.
A couple things I noticed, well
this is actually one thing I noticed
in the video.
I've got some spots that did not take
the stain.
That's just some low
thin layer of veneer I guess where the glue did not accept it. I've tried to touch that up
and it does not accept.
I took a measurement though. Luckily that's right behind one of the stiles
on the front or back panel so
it'll be alright. But I'm going to get
some
lacquer sprayed
and
then it's just a waiting game.
Alright real quick
before I put the panels in
I already sprayed
lacquer and have them stained so the glue adhesion
to the front of the panels is not going to be that great if I was just to use Titebond.
So what I did is I spread a little fine layer of some F-26.
I've got a spare tube sitting around
that was half used already so
I figured why not. You could use just about anything here.
Some good quality
glue.
Just be sure that it will stick to the
lacquer or oil based stain or whatever you used to finish the panels if that's
the route you've already taken.
Like I said I'm using F-26 here. Not a lot.
If you put a big thick
bead of it when you push your panel up and brad nail it in it's going to smear out to the
outsides and you're going to have a big mess.
So just a very small amount.
Brad nails are really going to hold it but this will kind of
tie everything together lightly.
So I've gotten to the point where
I'm mounting my hinges on the lid.
I've got this set up so it's the same height as the chest itself that way I
can just
set the chest next to it and secure it, flip it down and
I'll be good.
But I
came into a little problem.
My material started out as three quarter.
I glued it up
and then I planed it down a little bit since then.
So my screws
out of the package
were
I don't know if they were too long but
man they sure looked like they had pinched through the other side so I didn't want to take that chance.
What I did is I've
taken the screw
and clipped off the end of it.
And
I want to show you how I did that real quick
because I've done this a lot of other ways and shot shrapnel across the shop and
smacked into my eye a couple times but
obviously always wear your safety glasses but let me show you how I do that real quick.
Alright for me to cut these off
obviously if you had a
angle grinder or a bench grinder it would be a lot easier.
But what I do is I just cinch it in a pair of
I'm using needle nose with a cutting edge on it.
And what I'm going to be doing is just hitting it with the hammer and digging it.
But use a paper towel or a rag or something
to just wrap it over what you're cutting
and it breaks.
And it doesn't send shrapnel throughout the shop.
I've got my
piece that I need. I've got the piece cut off
both right here
and nothing dangerous. Obviously I'm wearing my safety glasses right now but
use a paper towel.
Alright so here it is all done.
Well for the most part done. I've still got to spray
probably one or two more coats of lacquer on it.
Mounted the wheels, they're on the bottom.
Moves around real easy.
The hinges I used
are an oil rubbed bronze hinge.
I couldn't find any
lid support hardware to match this oil rubbed bronze
at my local Lowe's so I'll probably be buying some offline.
The inside has two coats
of just a white semi-gloss latex paint.
And
I'm going to be spraying some lacquer on the inside of it to give it a nice durable finish.
Hinge hardware, still have to do that.
But for all intents and purposes this thing is done.
Total cost.
I had most of the stuff on hand
so it didn't cost me much but if you were to
build this outright
twenty four bucks for the one by twelves that I ripped down
was three pieces of one by twelve by eight.
A little more than half a sheet of quarter inch sanded ply is about fifteen bucks.
Six bucks for the hinges, six bucks for the casters.
That's fifty bucks right there plus tax.
And then of course whatever finish you got.
So about sixty bucks
something like that
to do this.
Turned out pretty good, alright.
Can't complain.
The way I view these type of projects though, these do-it-yourself type projects is
sixty bucks. If I would have had sixty bucks in my pocket or have this, which one would you choose?
It's not bad for sixty bucks.
I wouldn't, if this was mine I personally wouldn't go that dark but
she wanted it dark so it's dark.
I've done a lot of these, a couple of these in a
amber shellac
that pine works really well with.
You don't get as much blotchiness but
this will do.
Not too bad.
Especially not for sixty bucks.
And the casters are,
I use two inch casters so I've got
about a half inch or so
off the ground.
I forget what the exact measurement is.
Hopefully you can
make one yourself.
Not difficult to do.
Oh and yeah, here's how the
end grain turned out as opposed to the mitered corners. I really like this look better.
Anyway, enough of me rambling.
Hope you enjoyed it.
And hopefully you can make one of your own.
