Poplar rules!
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"Cheap" paint
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Poplar rules!
Amen, brother!
I am now building a whole set for my kitchen to match the china cabinets, out of......
Poplar!
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Some and parts... not all or entirely. If that makes any sense.
All, it's a far away picture. :-)
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And beech.
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But I'm getting "industrial paint" approaching the performance of Imron for a Behr price.
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Situations like that are pretty much unavoidable. Even when you _know_ it's 'wrong', it is, many times. =necessary= for 'domestic tranquility' to go ahead and make a 'missus-stake', anyway.
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Lately I have benn making some picture frames that I wanted to paint and then antique. Home Depot has small containers- maybe 2 ounces- of latex that are designed for folks to try out a color before spending big bucks for all the paint necessary to do a whole room. Worked fine on my frame. Lots of choices, I went with a satin shade of red. Enough for two coats.
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Do you sand it, shellac it, and sand the fuzzies off before painting? The stuff has fur, I swear.
-- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. -- Storm Jameson
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AKA American Whitewood
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OK, what's that green stuff in Poplar?
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Whitewood is usually SPF (spruce, pine, fir)
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Patina
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Tulipwood
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When I started seeing advertisements for Yellawood, I thought they were talking about Poplar. :-)
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An experiment gone wrong. Somebody grafted some output from the Treasury's Bureau of Printing on to a sapling, to attempt to disprove the "poplar adage" that 'money doesn't grrow on trees.' Seems like the coloration 'took', but the patterns were distored beyond recognition.
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Not up here it's not. It is Aspen or poplar, generally - defitely one of the softer hardwoods - fine dense grain and no knots
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Actually, the green patine is formed by a poplar tree growing next to other vegetation, like the kind that can climb walls. It makes a poplar green with ivy.
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Liriodendron tulipifera Otherwise known as "tulip poplar" - AKA "Yellow Poplar", Hickory Poplar, Saddletree, and "Canoe-wood". It is also sometimes called American basswood, but is actually neither Basswood, nor Poplar.
It is part of the Mognoliaceae family and is the tallest hardwood in North America. They are fast growing - growing 50 feet in 11 years, on average. Trees vary in height, but can grow to 200 ft, averaging between 100 and 150 ft tall, with trunks of 8 to 10 ft in diameter. Average weight is 31 lbs per cubic foot, with a gravity of 0.51.
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HORRIBLE!
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Patina
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