{"id":495,"date":"2018-11-21T22:35:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T06:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.evanyamoto.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2018-11-21T22:35:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T06:35:38","slug":"refinishing-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/21\/refinishing-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Refinishing Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s a TJ Maxx around the corner from my house, which is probably where I buy most of clothes while waiting for for my wife to shop. So, after I browse through the clothes and take the kids to check out the toys, the only thing left for me to do is to look at the furniture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually, it’s junk but every now and then, they have some things that are actually made of wood and is usually acacia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day, I came across this stool. I forgot to take before pictures, but it really looked nothing like this. It was very blocky and looked unfinished, like someone took a machete and chopped out a basic shape and left it as that. And there were lots of white streaks of sap wood and it the wood was an unusual color too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, I liked the basic shape of it and I recently worked with wood dyes, so I thought I’d be able to even out the sap wood. I picked it up and proceed to wait for my wife to checkout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometime much later, we were home and I sanded this thing for hours. I think I found out what kind of wood it was in between sanding breaks, but I have no idea what that was now. It was pretty soft so I kept going until it was smooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I applied a bunch of different wood dyes more than a few times to darken the sap wood but it was taking. Once this was dried, I applied some gel stains and later finished it with Arm-R-Seal, which is a light weight polyurethane that’s not too thick or shiny. And I think I finished it off with some paste wax, but I really don’t remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think it turned out pretty good and it looks like a much more expensive piece that it is. But more importantly, my wife likes it now and I got a little better with wood dyes and refinishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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