#wet sanding

[kvjohansen]

Guitar Progress: Wet-Sanding the Final Coat

Finding 4000 grit sandpaper is not easy. Nobody sells single sheets of sandpaper any more, so after much searching, I had to buy a mixed pack that went from, I think it was 1000, up to 4000. So I paid $15 plus hst for the single sheet of sandpaper I needed. This is a bit pricey. (I will have to become ruinously addicted to making guitars to justify this, right?)

Anyway, I sanded with 4000 and put a final coat of Tru-oil on the back of the guitar body. Then, discovering a dog-hair, removing the dog-hair, I left a fingerprint in the tacky oil, so I recoated just a portion of it -- and so it goes. I left that upstairs for twenty-four hours or so to harden in a warmer room once it was dry. And then, well, it's still not the glassy-to-the-touch surface I was aiming for, so time for wet-sanding.

Where are the mineral spirits? Why are there no mineral spirits in the cellar paint cupboard?

Can I use kerosene for wet sanding? If I can, should I? The answer is probably no.

Do I want to have to go off and go shopping? I hate shopping. Also, the cupboard is full of excitingly volatile things, some of which must be useful. What the heck is Taltine?

Our house came with a lot of the previous owner's stuff (late parents of a friend), and one did beautiful china painting. Taltine is a turpentine-alternative for fine oil painting. So, can I do wet sanding with turps? Sounds good.

Spouse, dubious, quotes various things about harmful vapours and necessary ventilation, and I do admit that there's no ventilation in the cellar to speak of, particularly as we can't even leave the door open because the dog will immediately come blundering in and fall down the stairs. (Yes, this happened. He's very old and unsteady and now we always make sure the door is tightly latched.) (He was okay, though alarmed and upset.)

However, the sunroom is easy to shut off from the rest of the house, with the added benefit of being sunny and therefore rather better lit than the cellar, and though it is very narrow and full of plants (including an olive tree currently in bloom), it has a door that can be closed, a window that can be opened, and an ottoman which can be covered with newspaper and used as a guitar-finishing workbench. Hooray!

So, a little Taltine on a yoghurt-lid, the 4000 grit sandpaper and a sanding block, and a light pass over the back of the body, the back of the head, and a rub around the sides and the curved edge and it is now beautifully smooth to the touch, while still having a bit of the organic look this guitar, which has a forest sort of theme to its colours, seems to be suited by. (I.e. you can still tell it's wood.) Still nicely glossy, too. It's as smooth as the perfect satin silky neck, with which I am very please, though uncertain exactly how I achieved that.

I'm going to put a few more coats of Tru-oil on the front of the body, as that will get the most battering in life.

And now I should really go close the sunroom window; it must be aired out by now. I don't want to freeze my olive-blossoms.

[proxycrit]

Day 39– ARBITER'S GROUNDS

Weird Gross Skinned Things in the Sand that burn in the light!?!? The desert is WET? We are not off to a good start.

(This totk au is called Familiar Familiar! It all started when Zelda did not get whisked back in time and devolved from there.)

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[marinememes]

Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today’s wet beast is: Sand Dollar

Olive’s Wet Beast Fact: Contrary to popular belief, Sand Dollars aren’t a seashell, snail, or crustacean! They are a type of fucking Sea Urchin. Can you believe that shit?

Stay tuned for more Wet Beast Wednesdays!

[rochenn]

the walkers in star wars make me irrationally angry like look at those things. they all failed the moose test. legs as long as the goddamn washington monument and about as flexible too. you KNOW they have understeer. destroy only one leg out of four to cripple the entire machine. crew survivability sits at a solid "good luck dude".

this goes for the republic walkers with extra legs too. do those things have a speed that isn't grandpa strolling past a construction site? why do they move at tortoise velocity? scrap them all IMMEDIATELY

[naturecalls111]

Onsen...

[bacchuschucklefuck]

gonna have to resketch the other side bc Im not happy with it yet but. thing's coming along

[dustykneed]

i humbly ask for more liquid feral creature (cat bones)

don't mind the decaf... i have nothing against decaf i just needed something silly for him to really hate for no reason (to spock's amusement)

[everysabaku]

[yaoi-gs]

In pink🎀

Credit: F_EIGHT_ / CHADA_01

[discluded]

y'all, I need y'all to read Wet Sand because I have been the victim of a single target harass-angst campaign by @moerusai for weeks now and MY HEART CAN'T TAKE IT. I DON'T WANT TO SUFFER ANYMORE I WANT TO BE HAPPY 😭😭😭

plot: Korean gangsters in Brooklyn. some of them have gay sex, but all of them deal drugs and commit violence 🤗🙏

also if Kinn Anakinn Theerapanyakul was your baby girl like he was mine, let me introduce you to: Oh Taejoon. droopy eyed puppy boyfriend. bisexual disaster. untouchable gang boss. the man that he is 😭

Mo is gonna make y'all cry whether or not you're ready so chop chop get in it :')

[uchihaculture]

“Hurry up and come give me a hug”

[theblvcksupreme]

[faaun]

we sang in the aeroplane over the sea tgth ☆

[irethilla]

···•• WET SAND 『  35 』 © Tappytoon ✎ Doyak (도약)

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WET SAND (2021)  dir. Elene Naveriani

[celluloidrainbow]

WET SAND (2021) dir. Elene Naveriani A village on the Georgian Black Sea is full of friendly people convinced they know each other. One day, bar-owner Eliko is found hanged. His granddaughter, Moe, comes to organize his funeral and is confronted with a web of lies and the tragic consequences of Eliko’s hidden love life with Amnon, which lasted 22 years. The truth, however, frees Moe’s capability to love and forces the villagers to take a stand. (link in title)