easy wood projects
In Foundations of Better Woodworking pg 42 Jeff Miller talks about shop lighting and how you need bright light from different angle to increase your ability to see better. Today I brought out a few different pieces Im ready to finish. The sun is shining and I tilt my cabinet top to different angle to let the sunlight reflect off my work and show off all my little flaws and scratches. Jeff talks about using 50-75 foot candles in the shop but today I had a bit more. I was able to catch a few more flaws and ended up scraping a bit more then sanding a couple of different grades of sand paper. I finally got to where I thought it was acceptably sanded and ready for the first coat. I have been using boiled linseed oil for a first coat on some of my work. I first started using this method of applying a coat or 2 of boiled linseed oil and leaving it out in the sun when I made a shaker style dinning room tray project a few years back. Christopher Schwarz talks about this method but he was using cherry in this article. (Christopher Schwarz Dinning Room Tray Article) I have used it in projects using fir, pine, oak, cherry and now poplar. The tannins in the wood sort of bloom a bit when left out in the sun and the sun also helps dry the boiled linseed oil, which in most cases is not boiled linseed oil at all but linseed oil with drying additives, go figure. I ragged in a coat of boiled linseed oil making sure the edges were coated as well. Then I left it to dry in the sun. Tomorrow I can sand it again, hit it with extra fine steel wool, put another coat of oil, varnish it or simply add paste wax to it and finish it off. Tomorrow is another day and I will see what the linseed oil did to the wood before I decide.
View in the sunlight from different angles. Let the light reflect off of your work.
Add the boiled linseed oil, rub into the sides. The end grain will absorb the oil a bit different rub it in.
I then let it sit in the sun for a few hours and tomorrow you will see the final effects. You can also do this on a scrap piece of the same wood you are using for your project to see approximately what your piece will look like.
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