Today I have been working on the Woodly project. I needed to sand each of the pieces of wood again and then I wanted to try some colored stain on at least one piece to see if that is the way I want to go with this guy. I had the stain already (a tube of black and a tube of blue) -- I have had them for a long time and I didn't know if they'd still be any good.
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| I re-sanded seven pieces of wood with the electric sander. |
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| The two smaller pieces (for the ears) were just too small to risk with the electric sander and had to be done by hand. I needed a pretty long break after all of the sanding...my hands took a beating. |
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| One of the tubes of colored stain that I already had on hand...the packaging promises "wood finishing made easy". |
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| I planned on wearing gloves anyway, but the instructions/warnings urged you to wear gloves -- good thing I did -- that stain is kind of thick and it takes quite a bit of pressure to get it to come out of the odd little hole in the cap...next time I will squirt it into a dish and work from that...LOL. |
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| So here are my results with the piece of wood that will be the base for Woodly...not too bad for a first try with a new to me material. |
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| I think I will need to go back and touch up a lot of spaces. |
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| Some of the deeper parts didn't stain this time. |
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| More of the imperfections that didn't get stained. |
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| Also this saw mark on both edges didn't get completely stained. |
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