Is mahogany natural?

I kind of prefer oak myself. :shrug:

:evilgrin:

Now this is a thread for good clean-minded folk! :o


:-)

Think faux Danish Modern.
Anybody remember that?

Went well with avocado appliances.... :o

Or REALLY into retro or something.

And not retro about home decor. :-)

some times a piece of that crap shows up at my local charity resale store. in fact if you have the time in couple of months you could furnish a whole room with that stuff from this place

A disguise for the baser wood that lies beneath.

:-)

:evilgrin:

duh
Color my face crimson.

Crimson tide? ;-)

if it likes the things that life is showing it...
where is it going to?
Does it know?

and it's looks far better when it's sealed with some poly and not stained dark, i hate the dark stain, ruins the look. I'm a maple fan.

But I never refuse good wood stain advice. :-)

Posted twice.

If you want wood-colored plastic, I can get you that pretty easy.

If you want wood-colored wood, either learn to French polish, stick with tung oil and Briwax paste wax, or use non-poly varnish.

My favorite witches' brew: put three coats of tung oil on the wood. Sand with 440-grit wet & dry sandpaper after each coat while it's still wet. After the third coat, give it a couple of days to dry, then come in with a mix containing one part mineral spirits, one part tung oil and one part alkyd varnish. Wipe this on with a cheesecloth rubber, then let it sit for a day. Sand with 600-grit sandpaper and do it again. Give it three days to dry, then start applying slightly thinned alkyd varnish. About three coats will do. Give one day between coats. After the third coat, give it a month to dry and wax it with Briwax.

Pun somewhat intended. :7

Trying to corrupt my innocent soul with wood puns! :spank:

Subtle, but it was. I guess I'll just have to try harder.

(Adds to to-do list: polish corruption skills)

And my reply followed up on it, I hope. :-)

"From now on, when people get wood, they'll think of Trojans!"