I try to help the kids with projects during the week, but often we do more on Saturdays. Today we did 3 projects. The first one isn’t a restoration, so it’s at another site. FIRST AID SUPPLY BOX
The other are a piano bench that Clara is working on; and a Kenmore dryer that Colleen is working on. I wish I had taken a picture of the dark Walnut stain going on the freshly sanded wood bench top. In the first picture, Clara is applying varnish over the stain with a brush. I wanted to her to get experience with different methods. In the second picture, the varnish has dried, we have wet sanded it with 400 grit paper, and wiped the dust off with a tack cloth. Then I showed her how to spray a coat on. The results are rather nice, but the picture doesn’t show it so well.
The dryer that Colleen worked on is extra, my wife bought a new one, this one still works, but we’re free to use it as a teaching project. That we will, it will have flames and maybe pinstripes when we’re finished. In the first picture, she’s sanding it with a power sander and 320 grit paper. Then she blew it off, and wiped it with solvent and a tack cloth. In the second picture, she is spray painting with an HVLP sprayer. This was a good learning project, as there is some technique involved. The third picture shows the result, a very nice finish, clean, white, shiny, and no runs, She did a great job.
