at the floor pretty hard with the wire brush and #11 blade, going after a rotted appearance, and I like how that turned out. I had to shorten a few boards vertically to get everything to fit, which
Step #1: After blackening the roof vent, take a pin vise and using a #61 drill bit, carefully drill a small hole in the base of the vent. If the surface is at an angle, start perpendicular to the su
details. I started with a razor blade and a #18 blade...basically shaving the grass. Follow this with a sanding stick and sand paper to get most of the grass out. A wire brush cleaned out all of t
Step #1: inspect the metal casting for any signs of flash. Use a No. 11 blade or a metal file to eliminate any of the flashing. Fortunately Brett's castings have very little flashing.
Practice tip #1: When cutting your stripwood using the chopper, especially when you are cutting similar lengths, put your scraps in piles according to size.
There is an area on the bottom of the back wall that will be covered by the dock, so there is no need to prep this wood. You can easily locate this wood in bag #1 because it's the only untreated stri
Let's grain some wood!! On page 7 of the instruction manual, you need to locate and remove all 8" wood from bag #1. I'm going to go over how I grain wood. Therefore, due to the amount of wood, you
so i ended up drawing a level line across a sheet of thin chipboard and tracing the letters on the damn chipboard, and then cutting them out with a #11. this took me two hours.
kind of like karl, i'll use a #11 stainless steel (i buy stainless blades due to the hardness of stainless, i think it's worth the extra money) xacto to cut round tube, roll the tube back and forth un
Rick, Looks really good. Think you achieved a very natural peel. The only thing I would do if it were mine is take my #11 and run it down each grain line on the vertical door frames. There are a fe
for missed spots and re-do them. Gently run #11 blade down each space between shingles in case it got closed up by the gunk. It's about like sand paper at this point. If I had to guess, I'd say ab
That is a great idea. I've used the #17 blade plenty but never thought about wetting the boards first. Thanks for the tip. Looking forward to seeing the walls put together.
Steve, the boards will really start to come together on the next steps. I'll board up all of the walls then trim them up. I have an order of #17 blades in and hopefully will arrive soon. After that
Just a word on how I did the stencil. I had not quite the results that I wanted with the stippling brush...it worked great on the large Blacksmith stencil....but I think the more fragile smaller separ
Here's a thought on a "nail head"....a tiny drop of epoxy on the tip of the wire....just as it starts to set.....flatten it with the tip of a #17 blade.....now you're going to make me try this.....all