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I actually don't really like to use stain at all and prefer the natural color. I am going to play around with some staining on this white oak though just to see how it comes out. |
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02-02-2017, 08:39 PM | #122 | |
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I like white oak better than red. For one, the grain is usually a little tighter, two, the color is is more of a neutral brown instead of a redish color to start. Little known fact: Most prefinished oak floor is white oak, not red even though red is a lot more popular for everything else. |
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I wish we hadn't have gone with laminate in 2012 when we built this place, but that was all we could swing. It isn't holding up for shit here on the lake. |
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02-03-2017, 09:59 PM | #124 |
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Cool thread. I used to have lotsa tools. Laid my wood floor and then made chairs out of the leftovers. My granddad made his own grandfather clocks. I took after him.
Was the teachers assistant in wood shop in high school. Sucks my kid didn't get this class. He enjoys helping me build stuff around the house. Just finished a barn door project to the bathroom.
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02-03-2017, 10:04 PM | #125 |
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I made my own entertainment center.
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02-04-2017, 07:01 AM | #126 | |
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I use the best equipment made. Lagler Hummel Belt Sanders, Lagler Trios, Clarke 7R edgers, etc. I purchase all my product from distributors in KC, Springfield, OKC, Seattle, and Denver. I get Acacia product out of Atlanta. Check your PM. |
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What kind of wood did you use? Pictures? Quote:
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02-04-2017, 07:37 AM | #128 | |
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It amazes me how much patience the old guys had putting in floor with a hammer and nails. |
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02-04-2017, 07:49 AM | #129 | |
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Those nailers have changed a lot in a fairly short period of time. I had a 24x24 garage built in 1985, for $2400. They used hammer and nails, in fact I still have half a huge box of 16 penny nails left over from their build. When we had the construction done here in 2012, it was all electric and pneumatic nailers. I get pissed every time I look at two of the decks as they didn't used screws, bolts or lags, just a lot of ****ing nails. Lots of them. |
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02-04-2017, 07:55 AM | #130 |
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I would lose my shit if someone built me a deck with nails.
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02-04-2017, 07:58 AM | #131 |
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Wow, they used nails on a deck?
Lazy. It takes a second longer to run a screw ffs. |
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02-04-2017, 08:31 AM | #132 | |
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I did, and I am the bad guy from Chicago that comes down here expecting things to be the same as they are up there. I spent a lot of money with that contractor and he has one of the best reps around. Not with me.
I have put actual bolts and lag bolts in the back deck where the runners attach to the uprights. He had about a dozen nails where they joined. Quote:
I am coming to the conclusion that it is the way they do things around here. Half assed and close is good enough. |
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Enjoying this thread a lot. Ive been a woodworker for a long time but have sort of drifted away. I have a shop building and a buttload of great wood. I need to get my ass back to building stuff and off the couch. Ive built baby cradles, a beautiful Walnut Wardrobe I copied from the Amana Furniture shop one, all my kitchen cabinets in my kitchen at the farm, and a bunch of furniture for the wife.
Now that I have a new computer with decent memory, I need to organize pics of stuff I have built.
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