finishing

What is woodworking? It is the art of creating fashionable and exquisite furniture. It can be associated with joinery, cabinet-making, carpentry or anything else related to wood. Woodworking requires instruments to mark measure and create the good fashionably and to know the tactics to refinish it.

The aim of refinishing is to use different methods like scratching, shaping and chiseling to bring out the natural grain and lines of the wood adding to its beauty. Due to the methods used for refinishing, the wood is damage so you have to keep in mind few points before undertaking this job.

The method of refinishing requires scratching the wood with either severe force or chemical agents. It is therefore essential you use those methods, which are unharmful for both the wood and your hands. It is better to try out your refinishing method on a scrap wood first to avoid incurring any unchangeable damage to your woodwork. Chemical strippers can make old wood coatings to soften down and prevent harmful lead paint dust from flying in the air where you are working. Therefore, it is much safer than manual strippers are.

Use the citrus-based chemical strippers. Though they work slower than ethylene-chloride ones their odor in not toll taking on the lungs and stays longer without drying up.

Try using carbide stripped two handled scrappers of paint because their replacement is not so expensive and remains sharp for a longer period.

Your work ends with the usage of a steel wool, which removes the adhesives and leftover materials from the wood. Use it after you scrap the wood and apply chemicals to it. Remember keep your steel wools in metal cans and not near direct flames.

Whichever method you choose to refinish your woodwork, be it by force or chemicals and molecules, does it gently. Lot of skill and artistry is involved in woodworking so refinish it without damaging it.

There is no rule which says you must paint woodwork white, or strip it, or color it to merge with the walls. In a room whose walls, window frames and doors are in the same neutral color, you could paint the skirting board a clear contrasting color. This will define the line between the floor and walls. Trim colors that contrast with walls and ceilings might suit your style in one room, while a more subtle color change might be right somewhere else in the house.

You can liven up plain, flat walls by adding moldings so as to create panels around the room. For best results, make sure you keep your working area within the proper temperature range recommended for the paint. All interior woodwork that has been stripped, from baseboard to dining room tables, needs to be primed with either a standard acrylic wood primer. After that you can paint on it with oil-based flat eggshell, gloss, or acrylic paints.

Most interior woodwork looks best in an eggshell finish, as high-gloss paint can have a rather bleak, deadening effect. If your plan is to paint walls, ceiling, and trim, then it’s best to get the trim painted first, along with the room’s windows and doors. Paint woodwork in small sections. Keeping a wet edge to avoid lap marks.

A wide range of broken- color effects work well on woodwork, but ideally you should use oil-based paints as latex has little durability on wood. Stains add color to wood while allowing its natural grain pattern to show through. Varnishes are clear finishes that form a tough coating over stain. They are available in a range of finish sheens from satin to high gloss. At the end of a project, combine all of the leftover paint of the same color into as few cans as possible.