Did anyone catch the $100,000 Trading Spaces? It was a two hour show and
instead of the usual grand per household, they each had $50,000 to spend.
Designer Doug had a table made from walnut and curly maple, then proceeded
to put an ebony stain on it. Carpenter Amy put the table top together and
they had it drum sanded flat. She was upset because they sanded too much and
some of the nail points were showing through. It was nailed from the
bottom. I always used glue and screws, but I guess I should start nailing
my projects like the pros do.
The only glimmer of goodness was that the table looked like crap. So crappy
that Doug sanded the maple to get rid of the stain.
Ed
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mike hide
"B a r r y B u r k e J r ." <[email protected]> wrote
in message news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:21:42 GMT, "Sammy" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >They stained mahogany on that show, too.
>
> So what? <G>
>
> While the show may have done it badly, good wood gets stained all the
> time, especially in architectural woodworking or antique restoral.
>
> I'm not talking about figure hiding Minwax-like pigment stains, but
> with high quality dyes, and maybe a little high quality pigment stain.
> Sometimes wood needs to be more uniform, other times it need to match
> existing stuff, yet another time, the wood may need to match some
> existing or custom built by another shop furniture.
>
> This could be any wood, like mahogany, walnut, and *gasp* even cherry.
>
> When doing an elevator lobby, large library, etc... It's not always
> feasible to hand select every board, and even if you could, that
> wouldn't help many other situations.
>
> Barry
They had $50,000 to spend and they worked with used furniture.... They
coulda hired a real designer to buy everything new.
"Edwin Pawlowski" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Did anyone catch the $100,000 Trading Spaces? It was a two hour show and
> instead of the usual grand per household, they each had $50,000 to spend.
>
> Designer Doug had a table made from walnut and curly maple, then proceeded
> to put an ebony stain on it. Carpenter Amy put the table top together and
> they had it drum sanded flat. She was upset because they sanded too much
and
> some of the nail points were showing through. It was nailed from the
> bottom. I always used glue and screws, but I guess I should start nailing
> my projects like the pros do.
>
> The only glimmer of goodness was that the table looked like crap. So
crappy
> that Doug sanded the maple to get rid of the stain.
> Ed
>
>
They stained mahogany on that show, too.
"Edwin Pawlowski" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Did anyone catch the $100,000 Trading Spaces? It was a two hour show and
> instead of the usual grand per household, they each had $50,000 to spend.
>
> Designer Doug had a table made from walnut and curly maple, then proceeded
> to put an ebony stain on it. Carpenter Amy put the table top together and
> they had it drum sanded flat. She was upset because they sanded too much
and
> some of the nail points were showing through. It was nailed from the
> bottom. I always used glue and screws, but I guess I should start nailing
> my projects like the pros do.
>
> The only glimmer of goodness was that the table looked like crap. So
crappy
> that Doug sanded the maple to get rid of the stain.
> Ed
>
>
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:21:42 GMT, "Sammy" <[email protected]> wrote:
>They stained mahogany on that show, too.
So what? <G>
While the show may have done it badly, good wood gets stained all the
time, especially in architectural woodworking or antique restoral.
I'm not talking about figure hiding Minwax-like pigment stains, but
with high quality dyes, and maybe a little high quality pigment stain.
Sometimes wood needs to be more uniform, other times it need to match
existing stuff, yet another time, the wood may need to match some
existing or custom built by another shop furniture.
This could be any wood, like mahogany, walnut, and *gasp* even cherry.
When doing an elevator lobby, large library, etc... It's not always
feasible to hand select every board, and even if you could, that
wouldn't help many other situations.
Barry