Back when we did our last opera for the season, one of the units was a card table... Overall it's like 4' x 6' with cut corners... When we built it, I had it done somewhat nicely, thinking that at the end of the run, I'd take it home rather than let them throw it in the dumpster... So far, everything went according to plan... Just one minor problem... They slathered it up with paint when they didn't quite like the stain color we picked... They actually did a nice job getting it to look like a dark cherry wood on top of the oak stain I did, but they didn't quite wrap the treatment all the way around, so while it worked fine on stage, it wasn't going to be good enough to use as furniture...
Several hours of sanding later, I'm back down to raw oak... I gave it a nice dark walnut stain this time around as I feared there might be a bit of the dark paint here and there in a pore... It looks great again... Next step, is several cotes of clear acrylic on top of the stain, and then I have to build a trestle base for it... (yea, I could slap 4 legs on there in a day and be done, but hell, I'm bored most of the time now, and a project is in order...)
There's something nice about being able to make yourself a nice, custom unit of furniture...
I love doing that too. When we first got married, I built our first set of coffee and end tables, and a sleeper/sofa.
Posted by: Ted at July 20, 2004 12:30 PM