[Dirtywhiteboy]

Started framing yesterday on our next build. Not too bad for 2 old guys for 2 days. Bought the smaller BigFoot chainsaw plate and tried some gang cutting of the joists...that was awesome!! So much easier and faster!

Now you're logging:thumbsup:

 

[Calidecks]

This is a sauna. It will have a cold water splash on my deck. It'll have an overhead bucket with an old fashion style toilet filler.

The idea is to step out of the sauna and dump cold water on yourself.

Mike.
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[Jaws]

Met with our cabinet carpenter at the shop this am to go over replicating this bar my brother built out of mahogany for a project a while back for my house, as well as a hall tree. Hes got to draw both

Thinking of switching to oak but not sure. My granite guy said the granite is on the house, leathered Mesabi black.

The way chit goes around here for personal projects with all the stuff we got going it may take a minute, but hope to build and finish both for Christmas party if not Thanksgiving. The carpenter shook his head and said no when I said Thanksgiving lol

I wanted to help but he had that look like "go form some concrete or frame something if you want to be 'hands on" cretin [emoji38]

I'm about to start my outdoor kitchen when I get through with these crazy weeks. Concrete and welding is more my speed lol

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[Leo G]

OAK!? blech

Maybe if it was Quarter Sawn White Oak with a nice medium brown stain, that would look nice.

Mahogany is a nice traditional bar material.

 

[Leo G]

OAK!? blech

Maybe if it was Quarter Sawn White Oak with a nice medium brown stain, that would look nice.

Mahogany is a nice traditional bar material.

 

[Jaws]

OAK!? blech

Maybe if it was Quarter Sawn White Oak with a nice medium brown stain, that would look nice.

Mahogany is a nice traditional bar material.

Would definitely be quarter sawn white oak Unless it's a cheap house that's the only kind of oak we use

I realise mahogany is traditional bar material, but not for poor folks. Lol

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[Leo G]

Poor folk get maple.

 

[Jaws]

Poor folk get maple.

Is it Maple hard to stain dark though?

The entertainment center is alder and granite. All other cabinets in the house are alder as well

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[Leo G]

Then go with the weed... Er uhmmmm Alder. Poor man's cherry as it's called by my suppliers. Kinda soft.

Maple is easy to stain dark, it's hard to not have it blotch. If you add conditioning to the process then it'll even out but makes it harder to get dark. Usually toning is required which is another step. Or you can sand to 120 with a small orbit finish sander and the stain will be darker.

Didn't think you were going to get a lesson in finishing, now did you? :jester:

 

[Jaws]

Then go with the weed... Er uhmmmm Alder. Poor man's cherry as it's called by my suppliers. Kinda soft.

Maple is easy to stain dark, it's hard to not have it blotch. If you add conditioning to the process then it'll even out but makes it harder to get dark. Usually toning is required which is another step. Or you can sand to 120 with a small orbit finish sander and the stain will be darker.

Didn't think you were going to get a lesson in finishing, now did you? :jester:

I'll take the lesson lol

My painters always condition alder, and then usually stain with two colors. Alder is blotchy as **** if you dont condition.

Yeah it is soft, that's why the granite on the entertainment center and laundry cabinets. The bar top would be be granite

The mahogany is probably the way to go. I dont plan to move for atleadt 15 years and if I thought it didn't help the house value I could take the bar and hall tree with me



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[Leo G]

The only time I used it was to make about 15 man doors. And I had nothing to do with the finishing. Thank gawd.

 

[tjbnwi]

My vote, grain matched oiled walnut.

Tom

 

[Jaws]

My vote, grain matched oiled walnut.

Tom

Sounds expensive. Lol

 

[tjbnwi]

Sounds expensive. Lol

I have no problem spending other people money.

I’m sure the pictures are screwed up. (Only 1 is.....)

Tom

 

[DaVinciRemodel]

I vote for sapele.

 

[Deckhead]

I'm about to order more mahogany next week. If you want to take a 24 hr detour you can come by the shop and pick it up the week after.

 

[Deckhead]

I vote for sapele.

I've found sapele isn't as stable as sipo for outdoor cabinets.

 

[DaVinciRemodel]

I've found sapele isn't as stable as sipo for outdoor cabinets.

I don't think he's making outdoor cabinets. I thought he was replicating a mahogany bar - interior.

 

[Deckhead]

I don't think he's making outdoor cabinets. I thought he was replicating a mahogany bar - interior.

Gotcha. Was breezing through and saw the outdoor kitchen comment.

In that case, sapele is as good as any and is very affordable. The ribboned doesn't look as much like genuine mahogany but it is absolutely gorgeous and takes a finish as good as any wood. Little harder too.

 

[Leo G]

Sapele in it flat sawn cut looks very similar to mahogany but really isn't stable enough to make doors out of. It'll twist. What you are showing is ribbon striped Sapele and it a quartersawn cut. It's much more stable, but you ablsolutely need to have a wide belt or sanding drum to work with it. The grain reverses itself constantly and you get chipout from it being planed. It you have a multisegmented planer head it'll do better but you still get chipout.

The wood have a great deal of chatoyance and as you walk around a pc that has finish on it the grain will reflect and jump and change, something mahogany just doesn't do.

I've never seen it so brown before as in the picture of the door. Probably not it's true color, it does look unfinished.