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Looks good! Is the piece something you designed?
Chad
A Working Pro since 1993
Member since 12/07/2013Thanks,
Chad, I built the project based off of (very rudimentary) drawings the client gave me. Fireplace and mantle were existing.
Nice work! I’ll be doing a built in like this for my brother and sister in law in a few months. Subtract the fireplace and add a 55″ LED TV though.
What’s the length of the wall? About 18 ft?
Jon P.
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InstagramThe units were about 4.5 feet wide, and the fireplace is about 6 feet. So yeah, 17-18 feet.
Got my butt kicked on the finishing part of this. This was my first spray job, and I totally underestimated the sheer amount of prep to get a good finish. Spraying totally renders false the old “a little caulk, a little paint” saying.
Agree with everyone, very nice job. How ’bout some details on the finish part. I’m working at upping my finishing game too. Still a little squeamish about spraying a customer piece, especially on site.
kevin
I did the bulk of the finish off site.
I picked up a graco true coat to see if its something I wanted to pursue. It got pretty good reviews compared to their higher priced models. the one I got isn’t rebuildable, so it was pretty cheap, but seemed to work well for me.
I sprayed 2 coats of bin primer, sanded to 150 between each coat with my festool ets 125. Then sprayed 2 more coats of sherwin williams pro classic, sanded to 240 grit on the first coat. I ended up missing some small spots, and getting a couple scratched during install, so I opted to do one final pass on site with the pro classic and a mini foam roller.
The doors and adjustable shelves turned out great though. Smooth as glass.
Looks great. I am still doing the old type finish with a brush and roller, maybe some day I might invest in a spray system. I think it is a big learning curve.
Looks good. Did you finish them with lacquer or paint?
At 4.5 ft are you worried about the shelves sagging after time?Ron
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Member since March 26, 2014.
Shelves are 3/4 poplar ply with 3/4 x 1 1/2 poplar apron attached with dominos, dadoed into each side of the cab and glued and screwed from the back. The back is 1/2″ birch ply. I’d hope they would be pretty sturdy after all that.
I used sherwin williams pro classic for the paint. Its an alkyd enamel.
The 1 1/2 will definitely help. I have sprayed the pro classic before with good results.
Ron
A Working Pro since 1994!
Member since March 26, 2014.
The units were about 4.5 feet wide, and the fireplace is about 6 feet. So yeah, 17-18 feet.
Got my butt kicked on the finishing part of this. This was my first spray job, and I totally underestimated the sheer amount of prep to get a good finish. Spraying totally renders false the old “a little caulk, a little paint” saying.
Very nice work. Always nice to have storage.
Thanks for sharing that info. Sorry to derail the thread, I’ve been using Ben Moore Advance Waterborne Alkyd. Wondering about other options, including the SW proclassic and Insl-X. I hear different results from different users, especially about hard cure time.
Stupid Q. Did you screw the shelves through from back ?
kevin
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