The interesting thing about this wood filler is if you look the ingredients and out of anyone who is in the automotive repair business or auto body repair probably would recognize this stuff right off the back and it is an awful like a banjo, looks like banjo, smells like banjo. So, I did a little bit of homework and found that pretty much this is bando re-labeled as wood filler and cost about 3 times as much.
For about the same price maybe a coupe of bucks more you could go to Home Depot, wherever and you can get a can of Banjo, that is about this big. Who knows how long it is going to take you use it but the bottom line is a heck a lot cheaper, so find some friends buy the big can split it up let everybody takes some and it is a definitely a better investment in this little can for a 15 bucks.
And last thing I like show you is how I am going to treat the moving parts of the under table pull mechanism. As these pull apart they rub against to each other and they are going to add friction there. So it is horrible we will reduce that friction as much as possible, so someone pulls the table as that an effort less task.
So, usually what I do is I will coat the sides of this, any part that is going to touch, coat that with say maybe a two pound or one pound cut off Shellac. It is a nice brittle finish especially if you are doing like a drawer slider or something on the interior of a case or box, you do not really want anything that is going to retain in any odors and oil finishes tend to retain those odors for a long time. So something like shellac, once it is cured does not smell like anything.
So, once the shellac is dry then I sand it lightly with 320 grips sand paper or maybe of some for out steel wool and I head with a little bit a paste wax. Once you do that it is gong to be silky, smooth and those pieces are going to slide up and back and forth against to each other it could be awesome.
Well, looks like this table has turned out really nice, I think the customers is going to be pretty happy with the result. After the finish cure I was able to glue everything back to other using a structural epoxy, in this case with refinish projects I generally recommend structural epoxy over a five minute of epoxy or even something like just regular wood glue.
When you are dealing with these all joints sometimes there are trying to finish maybe a little bit of dried glue, things that can actually inhibit the banding power of standard wood glue. So, I definitely recommend going with epoxy but just to note about the color matching I really did not have to do a whole lot.
Now, pine and mahogany are never really going to go great together. It is just the grain pattern is just too different but once I put a new coat of lacquer on it the actual background color is are pretty down close and where good enough that I was not get a mess with this.
Sometimes you start down that road and changing the color and it is just turning into a nightmare. So, I check with the customers, they were very happy with this result and they want this sort of rest, take a look that the base has anything the tabletop just looks perfect. So, customers are going to real happy with this one.
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