The Details Can Make or Break a Project - Mission Sideboard Part 1

[@iandodd7828]

I enjoy learning smart tricks like keeping two squares preset to mark out the mortises or setting tenon depth to the width of your square’s blade. But I keep thinking how painful it must be to put that much time, effort and attention to detail into a piece for paying clients whose aesthetic choices run so clearly counter to your own.

[@Benham_Design]

I have come across this a lot as a custom furniture maker, and I look at it from the stand point as being an artist. Let's say I'm a painter and love to paint sunset's with vibrant orange colors. A client wants me to paint a sky with blue colors instead I'm still going to do my best to paint that skyline even though I would like to have it with more orange. Same thing with furniture, I'm going to build every piece the best I can regardless of style. There is an unfortunate stereotype in rustic furniture that it doesn't have to be perfect or high quality because it's rustic. But in reality I build it as a high quality piece, and the rustic aesthetic is just the color the client chose. So every brush stroke is still deliberate, I just dipped it in the rustic color before applying it to the canvas. Just like the painter dipped it in blue instead of orange.

[@ikust007]

Such high quality work . Impressed as usual

[@dpmeyer4867]

Thanks

[@vulgarwoodworks]

Excellent work as always. Looking forward to the rest of the build

[@chillertechtexas4375]

Absolutely fantastic!

[@dc102dc102]

i use sanding sealer before ca glue

[@cobberpete1]

OR, a coat of quick dry Polly. Then just sands off.

[@cobberpete1]

Spray Polly

[@ikust007]

Even with a card scraper you would be scared , for the CA glue ?

[@Benham_Design]

White Oak has pretty deep pours for it's grain structure, so I'm leery of any liquid that can soak in and cause problems with the finish. Spoiler alert, present day, I finished the piece and had no staining issues. So my theory was either true, or it wasn't going to be a problem either way. I may have to side by side test one day to see what happens under the different circumstances.

[@ikust007]

@@Benham_Design my kind of scientific attitude :) bravo ! I did a lot of tests with Allback paint : much work… complicated paint

[@doubledarefan]

Since you made the pieces oversized, you could have jointed the faces to eliminate any concern about the CA messing with the finish.

[@Benham_Design]

That is a very good solution!

[@jackolo53]

9:30 what marking knife do you use? It seems like a good one

[@Benham_Design]

I picked it up at @woodcraft , I think it's one of two styles they carry