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I switched (from oil based) to Varathane water based clearcoat a couple of years back. Great product. You can build coats of clear very quickly and easily as it dries in something like 1/2 hr, and of course, cleanup is a breeze. It says 2-4 hours between coats on the can, but it sure seemed to dry a lot faster than that. Now I've got the bug to refinish a couple of old dressers I have. I had held off because of the horrible smell of traditional finishes. One looks to be cherry. I have no idea what the other one is.
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...  will put one some more polymerized tung oil to finish I think. When this is done for the main floor TV room, I will have to make it's bigger brother for the media room in the basement. I think what Bob's trying to day is: "Cool design!"
Fred
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Blujays1: Spending Fred's money one bottle at a time, no two... Oh crap!
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Always call the place you live a house. When you're old, everyone else will call it a home.
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Wine rack in the back... good idea. combine my passion for music with my love of drinking... or was that my love of music and passion of drinking.
Sadly still waiting for the glass shop idiots people to get the tempered glass shelves in that i ordered from them 5 weeks ago (that were supposed to only take 2 weeks to get delivered).
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Matt, that looks great! The design is similar to a Bell'O rack I owned several years ago. Nice work!
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Wine rack in the back... good idea. combine my passion for music with my love of drinking... or was that my love of music and passion of drinking.
Mrs. Classic says "Ooooo, we could be friends!"
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Nice rack. Wait, that's not right...
That's a really lovely piece of furniture, Matt.
And, yes, what Mr. and Mrs. Classic said.
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Wow, outstanding Matt! Truly a craftsman. Hope the glass shop pans out. Always easy until you have to involve others in the process it seems.... 
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They finally delivered on Friday. And directly to my house that was a nice gesture.
Then I took the Pioneer receiver off the old ikea stand and neatly ran all the cables though the stand and got everything looking great. Turned on the unit and got no sound. Finally figured out that I had an optical cable in the wrong spot, but then the HDMI switching wasn't working.
After a good 3 hours of trying everything and getting all the cables back out of the neat placement, figured out what was wrong, but have not got it back together yet. Maybe mid week I will get around to it when I have some time on my hands. Will post a photo then
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OK, I have a stoopid noob question. I want to round off the edges of a large piece of 3/4" maple (~46" x17", if I remember correctly) for a bench top. I have a plunge router and a small/portable router table, only about 2'x3'.
What is the best way to route around 3 of the sides? Can I just clamp the piece down and go for it by hand, or is that a recipe for sadness? The table seems a very unwieldy idea to me, especially considering how heavy the piece is.
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