It's been awhile since I posted on my big project so I taught I give you an update. On my last post I had the stand and cannopy done ecxept for the finish. Ok that is when I ran into some major problems. I stained the wood with mimwax Bombay mohagany stain. That color only comes in the type with the poly in it. Well first coat looked terrible on pine and it wasn't really the color I wanted. So I applied several coats but that made it worse. The surface was rough and by the time I covered the pine grain, it became awful dark. By now I realized this wasn't going to be fix this way so I ended up stripping everything and start over.
I decide to go with paint this time so I bought rustoleum burgundy. This time I was smart enough not to apply the stuff on the stand. I sprayed a couple of test pieces and did not like the color. It was too red so I got some black, mixed with the burgundy and finally got the color I wanted.
The weather has not been so good here for spray painting and the garage is out of the question. So I sprayed as much as I could in the basement. Another big mistake. Now everything has a coat of red dust from the overspray. this is going to take awhile to clean up. Anyway, the pieces I did spray turned out pretty good but the glossy paint made every little imperfections in the flat surfaces stand up. I'm not about to strip again so I've decided to do a technique I learned many years a go in a factory I was working at. It involves spitting droplets of paint over a base coat. The result should be a textured fingerprint proof finish that will hide all imperfections. Unfortunatelly the weather is still not good enough to do this and there is no way i'll do this in the basement. I will post pictures of this when I actually get it done.



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