FINISHING 2 FACES MADE EASY
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When it comes to finishing projects, there can be challenges. Let’s do everything we can to eliminate challenges, and make finishing as simple as possible. Here’s a trick that will help your finishing move along a little faster; finishing both faces of a project in one go.
I have to say that for a lot of years I would put finish on one face of a piece and let it thoroughly dry before flipping it over to finish the other face. I ended up with a job that required putting new finish on almost two dozen table tops. My friend Charlie has a bigger shop than mine, so I took the tables to his place.
When the time came to apply finish, I started following my standard procedure. With finish on one face I was ready to leave for the day. That’s when Charlie yelled at me, “Why not finish the finishing?” Charlie’s standard approach is to finish the back first, carefully flip the parts so the back surface is on finish points, and then finish the front. I don’t know why, but it never occurred to me that I could do this.
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When you flip the parts over and set the back on finish points, you might leave tiny marks in the finish. In many applications this doesn’t matter; the bottom face of table top, the back face of a cabinet back…there are many places you can get away with this. You can take a completely different approach when finishing both sides of a door.
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I didn't know these things existed. Very helpful! I don't have a garage where I can work on things. I have a shared courtyard, and we try not to let out personal projects become multi-day eyesores. Doing two sides in a single drying time will be very helpful. My current project has a side that can definitely skate by with a few irregularities.
I've been doing this for quite some time now. The key factor, as you said, is to spray the sides AFTER it is turned. Not so bad on a piece finished clear, but really hard to fix smudges on painted pieces. Thanks for sharing the tip.
Having a fan running to get some air moving over the piece also goes a long way to help it dry faster (if you're in a hurry).
Fantastic tip George! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
thanks
You're welcome!
I don’t think you have enough clamps
NEVER enough clamps!
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Great tip. Thanks for posting this. What would you do if you had say a large table top and needed to apply multiple coats of finish?
The same thing multiple times.
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This same approach could be used on a large table top. In fact, at the beginning of the video, George explained that he learned this approach when finishing table tops.
Paul
That's what I said.
do youbuild lots stuff for commercial business why do you have so many clamps lol?