Storage Shelves Glued Up – Request for Finishing Advice
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20 November 2014 at 6:40 pm #121233
The wife requested some shelves for a closet to hold her craft supplies. I’ve just taken the clamps off after gluing up yesterday. I’d like to keep the natural color and finish with shellac, but the wife wants them painted. Here’s my question – if I paint, I will definitely prime first. But would you use shellac (de-waxed) as a sealer before priming, or is the primer basically a sealer?
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I borrowed heavily from the wall clock project for joinery guidance. The top and bottom have stopped housing dadoes to accept the sides. One fixed shelf is housed in stopped dadoes in the sides. The other three shelves are adjustable via shelf pin holes spaced 1″ on center. The back is simply a piece of tempered hardboard (masonite). Overall dimensions approx 54″ x 22.5″ x 13″ deep. I used Paul’s ironing technique to remove some dents in the pine – worked great! Some of the wood is recycled from old and extremely dirty shelves I picked up for free recently. After clean-up and flattening they’re about .65 to .70″ thick. The shelves have a bull-nose front that extends 1/8″ from the cabinet front. I’ve included some pictures of the joinery. Please add any comments or critiques, especially if you have suggestions about how to augment the design or add moldings. Interesting glue-up since I don’t have clamps that long. I glued up the bottom, sides, and fixed shelf first (shown in one of my pics – top is on loosely for alignment). Then glued the top on later and used the fixed shelf as the opposing surface to clamp to.Attachments:
You must be logged in to view attached files.20 November 2014 at 6:43 pm #121238Oops, try not to strain your necks to view the pictures in the right orientation …
20 November 2014 at 9:26 pm #121247Matt;
Zinsser makes a shellac primer-sealer that does a good job of concealing knots, sappy places, and even Magic Marker! Of course, now that Rust-O-Leum has them, who knows how long the product will be available. Look for the Bulls-Eye brand.
Dave
21 November 2014 at 1:11 am #121253They look very nice good job. Sealer is most often just a light shellac a 1 to 1 1/2 lb. cut but they charge more for it
Frank j21 November 2014 at 4:32 am #121273Nice clean work Matt. That unit should serve you well. You could add a sanding sealer to all of the knots before going with a primer coat. The knots will behave like and grain and soak in a lot of finish. This is what makes them “bleed” through on painted projects. The sanding sealer will help. Be sure to check the compatibility of the products that you are going to use though.
Good luck and be sure and post some pics of the finished shelves.
23 November 2014 at 5:11 am #121355Thanks for all your comments. Well, here is the finished product. The wife agreed to have it unpainted. We both thought it looked really nice with the natural pine color. I finished it with three coats of shellac and a coat of paste wax. That was a lot of shellac.
First picture is of the shelves in the closet where they’ll reside. Other pic is of it getting loaded with all the boxes of craft supplies that it was built for.
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