Finished the Re-finish

Back in April I posted Quilt rack: clean up to finish I've been working on it between other things but I finally finished it. I found a stain that on pine matched the oak cabinets in my mom's kitchen according to sample display at lowes.  I did a few test on the back side and found that using a prestain conditioner match the oak cabinets.

Here is the before and after pictures. I will get a picture of it in use once my parents get the quilt rack hung up.

Overall the color looks alright but I am still not a fan of staining pine. There were areas where the stain hardly took at all. I gave it a coat of the garnet shellac I used on the knife block with hopes of darkening it up some. Then I gave it 3 more coats of clear shellac.  Mom was pleased with how it looks so that is what important.

I have also been working on the walnut lap desk.  So far I have the panel glued up for the top and bottom. I resawed the 4/4 board into 3/8" thick boards and have book matched the center section. I used a 1/8" spline along the edge glued boards. Here is the glue up, this is the top and bottom.

Quilt rack: clean up to finish

My mom has a hanging quilt rack that is used to display a quilt that her dad, my grandpa built.  I dont think there was every any finish applied and it was left rather rough. Mom has never hung it in her house and she asked me to clean it up and finish it so that she could hang the quilt rack in her kitchen.

Here is how the piece looked after I took it down from the rafters in dads garage and had went over it quickly with the random orbit sander.

 I trimmed the rail off the front to make it easier to finish. Since it looked like all the joints were glued I took all the screws out to keep from running the sander across them.  While trying to sand/plane a chip out of the front of the shelf I knocked the ends off, apparently the glue wasn't as strong as I thought it was.  This will be easy to re-attach and will actually make it easier to sand all the parts. I was thinking about plugging all the screw holes after I re-assemble it.  I will staining it to make it compliment mom's kitchen cabinets.