The Johnson Blog

Ramblings of a geek with a few hobbies…

Tag: camera cabinet

  • Staining

    I did lots of sanding on Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday morning.  And tonight I was able to apply the first coat of stain.

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    So far I’m fairly pleased with the results.  I can see a few spots where I screwed up and must not have sanded all of the wood glue remnants, the jury is out on whether or not I’m going to do anything about the blatant ones.  So I guess I should say it looks pretty good, and looks fantastic if I squint 😉

    I’ll let this dry over night, hopefully it’ll be ready for another application in the morning.

    Update:  Here’s what it looks like Sunday night, after 2 coats of stain.

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  • Progress

    This evening I finished the remaining work on the cabinet construction.

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    Here’s a photo of how my camera bags fit – not too shabby.  The lenses will go on the shelf and the camera in the drawer with all of other accessories.

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    While I’m glad to have it all completely built finally, I’m pretty nervous about staining it.  I’ve never stained anything before, and I’d really hate to ruin this thing.

  • 8 Hours

    8 Hours.  That’s how long the project book said it would take to make the book case I designed my camera cabinet off of.  Ha!  I can’t even count how many hours I’ve put in on this thing now – probably another 6 or so this weekend.  I’m slow.

    I made quite a bit of progress in the past couple days: top trim; adjustable shelf;  researched, bought hinges; made and hanged(?) the doors; and got almost halfway done making the trim for the doors.  I also picked out a couple sample stains and tried them out on some of the scrap wood.  I think I’ll be going with a couple coats of Minwax Red Oak over the Red Mahogany, but we’ll see.

    Here’s where it stands tonight (more photos here)..

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    Bits left: finish making and installing door trim; make the back; sand; stain; poly.