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  1. Good luck in Tupelo John, and welcome to the south. I was going to say watch out for tornadoes.....but you already know all about them from living where you do. SR
  2. Thanks John! The sandback on the back was always intended to be a subtle accent. It sometimes surprises me to look back and see how much work it appears I did for subtle accents. But what the hell, I'm going to be sanding it anyway--why not get an accent out of it? SR
  3. There are many many finishing methods that produce amazing results. These days, I'm finding it difficult to find the time to type a few sentences, so I don't know how soon one could expect a tutorial. One thing I can and will do, is answer any questions you may have about the method you want to use......providing that I actually know anything about that method, of course. One thing most of them have in common is careful sanding. Plain old boring sanding can make all the difference between "oh wow!" and "oh shit!" SR
  4. Good things come to those who wait. Or something like that. This looks great! Love the color, front and back. SR
  5. Totally! That's exactly what that should be used for. SR
  6. Thank you! And absolutely. It's going to look like it's under glass. SR
  7. While it's reflecting light pretty well, this finish is still basically satin. It's going to get really shiny next weekend. SR
  8. So last weekend saw only two grades completed during the leveling. After another week of drying, the lacquer is around 95% cured. And that last 5% will keep shrinking for months and months. Since this is grain filled with a film of epoxy resin, I don't expect any shrinking into pores 6 months from now, I got through three grades of sanding this weekend. What you see is up to micromesh 3600. SR
  9. Got started on leveling last weekend. I like to break the surface of lacquer after one week. It's around 85% cured at that point, and I believe this helps trapped solvents evaporate. Also the act of leveling removes a fair amount of lacquer that now you don't have to cure. This time I leveled using only micromesh. And I took care to follow advice that @Bizman62 has been preaching almost since the first day he joined us. Use no pressure on the sanding block, which is a pretty dense square of foam.The point I was most interested in is doing my best not to introduce any deep sanding scratches. 1500 micromesh as a starting point should do the trick. And it didn't really slow the leveling down as much as I would have thought. SR
  10. You've got some intriguing stuff going on in your garage. SR
  11. And it's much harder to get the swan out of the beer glass. SR
  12. Thanks muchly Mike! Black lacquer is easy, and makes a classy burst. SR
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