Fixin' Up the Bungalow

-Gizmodyne Woodworking

Bungalow Kitchen Cabinets 12: Crunch Time

Gizmodyne | May 19, 2007

If you read the last blog you saw our finishing woes. Well, we tried patch sanding the cross grain scratch to no success. So we stripped and sanded the enitre door face and the face frame.
We were under the gun since our project was due to class by Friday night.
48 Hours to Go

The door [...]

Bungalow Kitchen Cabinets 11: The Dark of Night

Gizmodyne | May 15, 2007

Yes… More Sanding
I put the last coat of poly on the caracases and drawer interiors, had dinner, and then we both went out to the shop and did not finish til’ around 11:30 p.m.

Kristin sands the drawer faces.

She is just pretending to enjoy this.
Two Step Staining
If you saw our video on staining douglas fir.. you [...]

Bungalow Kitchen Cabinets 10: Going to Pieces

Gizmodyne | May 15, 2007

The Contest
My woodshop program at Cerritos Community College is having a contest/exhibition/barbecue…
I have till Friday night to finish my entries for Beginning Cabinetmaking and Furniture making.
So Far from the Finish
So yesterday I continued the mammoth job of finishing the carcases with three coats of Wipe-On Poly along with the insides of five drawers. I [...]

Video: Staining Douglas Fir Woodwork

Gizmodyne | April 20, 2007

After much teeth gnashing and griping we figured out a stain we like.