Thursday, December 23, 2010

Sanding is tedious

No pictures today, but I just wanted to mention that sanding is tedious. The finish came off pretty quickly, or so I thought. It looks like there was some stain or some transparent coat underneath, so its taking me a while to actually get down to bare maple. Until then, there is kind of an inconsistent yellowy coating in spots that I'm trying to remove. The good news: the parts I ordered come in tomorrow, so I should have a lot to work on over Christmas break.

I wonder how long it will take before someone reads this or it shows up in a search engine? Stype.org gets about 35 hits a day from random people, mostly there because of my gallery of photos from when I attended the world's strongest man pre-season trial. I think that site will be going away over the next few days, and I'll just let that content turn into 404s. Its time to clean up some of my old web presence and create some new. Maybe I can force a redirect from all stype.org urls to this blog? Maybe.

2 comments:

  1. Nice wood. If you hate sanding, try a cabinet scraper from Lee Valley. http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=32671&cat=1,310,41069&ap=1
    Free shipping for the next week as well.
    Mike

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  2. I did consider getting a scraper. My impatience and cheapness exceeded my laziness so I got it done anyways with what I had. Just put the first coat of finish on it...pictures tomorrow!

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