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Thursday, November 15, 2018

Second Curved Blockfront Chest of Drawers Finishing & Complete Step 6

This is a progress video on making the second curved blockfront chest for a client.  It will be exactly like the first one so there is not a lot of construction details.  If you want to look at the construction details you can see them here from the last build. Mahogany Curved Blockfront Chest Finishing & Complete Step 9

In this video, I show a little bit of the finishing.  I spray water based dye on the chest to get the color that I want.  Then I spray four coats of a 2 lb. cut of blonde shellac.  Then I wet sand the shellac with 400 wet/dry sand paper to partially fill the mahogany grain.  I don't like the completely filled look on the finish reminds me too much of plastic.Then I apply two more coats of shellac and rub out with 0000 steel wool in between.
I wait a day or two before final rub out with 0000 steel wool and special dark wax.  Then buff to a shine.

Here is a picture of the two chests together.  I think they look pretty much the same.
The one on the left is the new one.



Here is today's video: