Thread: What are you working on?

Very nice smooth shape you made. Yep, that Tru-oil does beautiful things to wood!

Originally Posted by Gasman

Very nice smooth shape you made. Yep, that Tru-oil does beautiful things to wood!

It really brings out the grain.

Originally Posted by MrZ

Having a razor in Outbacks hands in like marking down the days until Christmas. You know something great is on the way!

Santa's elves couldn't do work that good.

F some tile work.!! No way brother. My upstairs bathroom is in need of some floor repair, and it won't be tile, when I'm done.

I love my heated tile floors, especially in the bathrooms.

Originally Posted by outback

F some tile work.!! No way brother. My upstairs bathroom is in need of some floor repair, and it won't be tile, when I'm done.

Helping family while visiting AL. Tearing out entire floor in that room! Cheap tile on rotted presswood on rotted tongue and groove wood floor in house built 100+ years ago. Nasty work. Wish I had a respirator. Putting down 3/4" osb board afterward. Going to be a bathroom eventually.

Originally Posted by JP5

Helping family while visiting AL. Tearing out entire floor in that room! Cheap tile on rotted presswood on rotted tongue and groove wood floor in house built 100+ years ago. Nasty work. Wish I had a respirator. Putting down 3/4" osb board afterward. Going to be a bathroom eventually.

Be on the lookout for messed up electrical. 100 year old wiring has a tendency to be crap.

Beveled the scales for MrZ Reynolds, sanded all down to 220 grt., a wipe off with denatured alcohol, a first of many
Coats of Tru Oil, and tented to protect from dust.

In my younger days i had did a bunch of tile work. Heated Tile you say, Shaun. Im limi g the idea of that. In a bathroom it would be great. The wife has been on me about changing out the floors in our bathroom. I will ha e to look into this. Sounds wonderful!

Good luck with that floor Josh. Here's hoping its somewhat square and flat. Otherwise it can be a real PITA.

Mike, only up to 220grit before the finish? Ive always went to 800 or 1k paper before i felt it was ready. Maybe im waisting paper and efforts? I like how you got the grain to go across at an angle. That is what i try to do too, when i can.

I had the same reservation about stopping at 220 grit and decided that it would depend on the wood.
My premise being that oily woods need more structural adhesion, hence lower grit, and dry woods I would go higher grit.
I never did a side by side comparison, and it is just as likely that with some form of applied finish would provide no difference between 220 grit and higher grits.
So perhaps no difference.

On very oily woods like African Blackwood, I appreciate no finish and just go with very high grit, 12k.
Really just because I like the feel and knowing it's the wood I'm connecting with, not necessarily for a shinier look.

But I guess I'm weird about wood varieties, as I cherish a collection of wood species like a librarian does books.