{"id":437,"date":"2010-12-19T08:55:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T13:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenonandspline.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2010-12-19T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T13:56:10","slug":"finishing-touches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenonandspline.com\/blog\/archives\/437","title":{"rendered":"Finishing Touches"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Puppet Theater<\/a><\/div>

An Old Coat Rack<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was a kid, I used to spend a fair amount of time in the garage playing with my dad’s “tools.” I use quotes because I believe his entire collection consisted of little more than a handsaw, an old bright orange Sears power drill, and a few random screw drivers. Needless to say, he didn’t spend a great deal of time building things \u2014 but I made the best use I could of this assortment. \u00a0I fondly recall one Christmas cobbling together a coat rack for my parents made of 2×2’s and a few brass wood screws.<\/p>\n

This early piece came to mind as I began work on the next phase \u2014 a Puppet Tree<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Puppet Tree<\/strong><\/p>\n

On one of her frequent visits to Costco, my wife discovered a number of sets of hand puppets. Unable to decide on which to buy, she did the only logical thing \u2014 and came home with all 32 of them!<\/em> So naturally we’d need somewhere to put them all. We started discussing where to attach a bin or basket or fabric bag to the theater, but after some Internet searches, we settled on the idea of a rack <\/em>or tree<\/em>. Once again I borrowed heavily from a commercially available product, estimating measures from a small graphic. I had some 8\/4 Ash left over from a cutting board project that would fit the bill perfectly. I also decided to replace the square base in the commercial model with some feet made of the same Ash arranged in a pinwheel.<\/p>\n

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Base and center pole<\/p><\/div>\n

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Assembled for finishing<\/p><\/div>\n

Applying the Finish<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing terribly special here, just wiping on a few coats of my current favorite finish: Homer Formby’s Original Tung Oil finish. After using mainly Waterlox and Watco finishes for the past few years, I must say that I’ve grown fond of the results and ease of use of the Homer Formby stuff I can pick up at the blue big box guys. I used to use Waterlox, but the smell of their Tung Oil finish seems to last forever<\/em>. Pieces finished with this stuff<\/em> can be moved into the house immediately after it cures without fear poisoning the kids!<\/p>\n

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Finishing the sides<\/p><\/div>\n

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The front hung out to dry<\/p><\/div>\n

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Intarsia masks applied and finished<\/p><\/div>\n

Putting it Together<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the final coat of finish dry and sanded out, I decided to put it together and install the curtains Lisa completed and dropped off a few days ago.\u00a0Yeah<\/em>, I think it came together well.<\/p>\n

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Assembled with curtains<\/p><\/div>\n

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RTA hardware installed<\/p><\/div>\n

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A view from backstage<\/p><\/div>\n

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Some theater lighting<\/p><\/div>\n

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I really love how the masks look!<\/p><\/div>\n

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This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Puppet Theater<\/a><\/div>

An Old Coat Rack When I was a kid, I used to spend a fair amount of time in the garage playing with my dad’s “tools.” I use quotes because I believe his entire collection consisted of little more than a handsaw, an old bright orange Sears power drill, and a few random screw drivers. … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,20,128,25,122,108,21],"series":[120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenonandspline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenonandspline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenonandspline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenonandspline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenonandspline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tenonandspline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/tenonandspline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenonandspline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenonandspline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenonandspline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenonandspline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}