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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9705 on: April 16, 2019, 08:13:24 AM »
Quote from: Pyraxis on April 15, 2019, 10:39:18 PM


What did you use for the surface?

I have an antique wood toybox chest that I'm trying to restore... it's from WolFish and he wanted it to go to the cub... I've got it a little more than half sanded and I need to figure out what would be the best kind of varnish.

After I hit it with the sander I stained the top with watered down black chalk paint, and sealed everything with 2 coats of Minwax Polycrylic gloss...which was supposed to be matte or satin finish, but the boy picked it off the shelf and I didn't double check the can until I had it opened and started putting it on.  :autism:

It's water based, soap & water cleanup and basically no odor, some say it does yellow a bit when dried especially over white, haven't painted anything really light enough to notice though.

...and this is the big blue box....



I stenciled the top and front. The script is in french, a verse from the poem “Le Lac”

Basically it says:  “Oh time suspend your flight, and you favorable hours suspend your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights, the most beautiful of our days!”

I need to start on my cabinets some day.  :laugh:
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9706 on: April 16, 2019, 09:57:57 AM »
I like it!   :plus:
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9707 on: April 20, 2019, 04:37:54 PM »
Worked on a house in New Haven Ct, ranked 13th most dangerous in America
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9708 on: April 20, 2019, 04:59:18 PM »
Quote from: Parts on April 20, 2019, 04:37:54 PM
Worked on a house in New Haven Ct, ranked 13th most dangerous in America
Now can't help but wonder who has this awesome job of ranking the most dangerous houses in America. :laugh:
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9709 on: April 20, 2019, 05:01:09 PM »
Bad wording oops.  The house was not pretty though it had been vacant for years and was a dirty mess
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9710 on: April 20, 2019, 06:08:05 PM »
Quote from: Parts on April 20, 2019, 05:01:09 PM
Bad wording oops.  The house was not pretty though it had been vacant for years and was a dirty mess
What was ranked thirteenth most dangerous then?
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9711 on: April 20, 2019, 06:40:30 PM »
 Lawn work
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9712 on: April 20, 2019, 11:02:23 PM »
Planted lily bulbs along the front walk. In fire colors, of course.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9713 on: April 25, 2019, 09:17:54 AM »
Took Filburt to the park for a walk
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9714 on: April 25, 2019, 11:43:54 AM »
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9715 on: April 25, 2019, 07:12:39 PM »
Had breakfast and then went for a walk by the foreshore.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9716 on: April 26, 2019, 11:43:26 AM »
Yardwork, laundry, daydreamed, worried
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9717 on: April 26, 2019, 12:16:19 PM »
Worked in our Copenhagen office. Had a beer with my team leader. boarded a train back home.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9718 on: April 27, 2019, 05:38:20 AM »
Went and saw my friend in hospital. Did some art in the art/craft room they have there and met some nice people, some of whom thought I was a fellow patient. I can blend in it seems. :green:
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #9719 on: April 27, 2019, 07:29:45 PM »
Went up on the hill with the trimmer to cut grass while the boy ran the mower.

5 minutes into our work effort and I though I smelled smoke...didn't see anything.  :dunno:

It was the mower...the driveshaft froze and belt was smoking...definitely has his father's luck.
But to his credit this was the mower that was submerged in 5 ft of water for over a day after the basement  of the bar flooded 2 years ago.

Quickly cannibalized the coil off of it to get another one fired up so I could finish the lawn. Still need to do a motor swap on another his dad seized up last fall.

Grass season has officially began.
 

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