RE: A Question

Lew Hodgett · 2006-11-05T06:26:18+00:00

Am building a chest of drawers as follows:Drawer sides and backs are 1/2 hard maple.Drawer fronts are 3/4 hard maple.Drawer bottoms are 1/4 birch ply.Drawers are to be assembled using half blind dovetails front and back and epoxy. (Explanation later)Drawer fronts have BLO & wax.All drawer outside surfaces sealed with 2 coats of 2# shellac.All drawer inside surfaces sealed with 3 coats of 2# shellac.Each coat is lightly sanded with 320 grit.Since the drawers are not assembled yet, it is straight forward flat surface sanding.Since the tails and pins of the dovetails have some shellac on them as a result of my sloppy application of shellac, Titebond II can't be used for ass'y, thus the epoxy which will seal around the shellac coated pins and tails and cure.Now the question.IF you want to build drawers with the interior surfaces sealed and sanded smooth as a baby's rear end, what would you do differently from the above?Lew

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nailshooter41 12 years ago

You know Lew, I never thought about that. I buy coatings in "fives" so much I don't stop to think about smaller amounts. So I looked at Sherwin Williams "Rexthane" another good product, and it only comes in singles (one gallon) and five gallon buckets.

Rustoleum industrial/commercial makes a good deck paint I have used and the same thing... singles and fives. Took to Google and can see why there aren't many quart offerings. They are almost as expensive as the gallon sizes for similar products!

Maybe you could find the smaller amounts in an upscale hardware store with a good paint shop like an ACE or something similar. I have used the ACE products with no complaints from me or my clients, but can't vouch for its longevity.

Robert

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Lew Hodgett 12 years ago

------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherwin Williams suggested a latex based porch and deck paint; however, they want to play the list price game.

The list price for a gallon is $57 which tells me the trade price is about $20-$25, but the local SW retail outlet would only extend a 10% discount.

Mrs. Hodgett's little boy Lew ain't very smart about a lot of things, but he ain't no idiot either.

I can probably get the trade price but right now, it's not worth the aggravation.

Lew

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Leon 12 years ago

Register with SW, you automatically always get a 10% discount and you get e-mails sales for 24~30% off almost monthly

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Lew Hodgett 12 years ago

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10%/30% doesn't get my attention.

Played the discount game most of my career.

If the first discount isn't at least 50%, you're not serious, IMHO.

Lew

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Leon 12 years ago

I would think that getting the product on the surface might be more important than an additional $13 savings on a gallon.... If you can actually get that additional savings from a small purchase.

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