Travel Tool Chest & Workbench Build Process
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Posted 3rd June 2023
All together now...
♫ ♫ It's a kind of magic, a kind of magic... One dream, one soul ... ♫ ♫
The first coat of the Mike's Magic Mix has been applied. Having done one coat I can say with some certainty that the inside of this chest isn't going to have very many coats at all. Getting the stuff on was hard enough (with a foam pad on a long stick), wiping it off was even worse. The gap between the upper drawer dividers is too narrow to get my hand in between, as is the gap between the slats on the back. Hopefully one (or if I can face it) two coats will be plenty.
I'll give the outside faces four coats probably.
The drawers (and the scraggy temporary front for that matter) aren't going to get any finish applied until they're much closer to finished (with the fronts planed down and the knobs on). That'll be after the holiday, but I thought it would probably help protect the chest itself if it had a bit of finish applied.
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