Comments on: 100- Low Entertainment Center Pt. 4

By: David Julian

David Julian — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:38:17 +0000

Too keep the finish out of your dado’s try using backer rod (used to fill the space between the rough in and the window frames) the foam rod comes in various sizes, and it might be reuse able.

Thank you for the great pod casts.

By: thewoodwhisperer

thewoodwhisperer — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:35:20 +0000

Originally, we put it in our bedroom. Shen we moved, it was given to my mom.

By: Frank Kovach

Frank Kovach — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:30:30 +0000

Marc, I just watched this again because I am building something similar. Well, using similar methods, but mine is upright and being installed in a bathroom wall. Anyway, I know you made this in your new place using only three power tools, but I was wondering who it was for.

By: thewoodwhisperer

thewoodwhisperer — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:19:07 +0000

Hey Danny Boy. While I don’t always do it, I think adding some “walnut” color to walnut is actually a pretty good idea. It intensifies the color and makes it more consistent. And really, water based dye or gel stain would both work great. No real reason to use a sanding sealer though, since walnut usually takes up stain very nicely.

By: Danny boy

Danny boy — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:46:24 +0000

Hi Marc!
Nice project! I also love to work with walnut. It has such a rich look! Have you ever considered using gel stain as a way to add constancy on the grain color? (I see you have used a water based stain)

I’ve had beautiful results with that kind of stain. Mostly because walnut seems to have very large pores and gel stain prevents the stain itself from going too far under.

If not, I wonder if the use of a sanding sealer would have been a good idea before coloring the wood.

Any toughts?

Au revoir de la part des gens de QuÃƒÂ©bec!

By: horacio rodriguez

horacio rodriguez — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:00:23 +0000

Hello Mark, I am professional saxophonist living in Venezuela, but long ago I like carpentry and I’m very much into that as my hobby, I have my machine and try to learn as much as I can, but get to your page I find incredible and very well done congratulations,,,, shame that I do not speak very good English and I am merely the image and video,,,, I like that even if you make a basic video in Spanish with someone you tradusca, ,,, for the Latin American market as ,,,,,, help me a lot and congratulations again ….. Horacio

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:36:35 +0000

Great use of common tools. As a starting wood worker, with very limited space for tools, its great to see what can be acomplished in this manor. Keep the good stuff coming

By: thewoodwhisperer

thewoodwhisperer — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:42:49 +0000

Hey AZ. Thanks for the feedback! I use 180 grit after raising the grain. Basically, I would the same grit you left off with prior to the grain raising.

And when you are using 3/4″ ply, it doesn’t really matter. Some of the holes could very well go all the way through. But the shelf pins don’t penetrate more than half way through the ply so it doesn’t matter much. But its still a good idea to stagger them if you can. And even as I am saying this I am not sure why. For some reason I would prefer the hold doesn’t go all the way through, lol.

Its definitely good to think about shelf alignment, but in this case you could at least make it symmetrical, with the two outside shelves being the same and the middle shelf being slightly off. Since the shelves are adjustable, you probably won’t have them all in exactly the same position anyway. And furthermore, you could keep the shelf pins at the same vertical locations, but just push the entire row back 1/4″. SO that’s one way around it if its a real concern.

By: AZ

AZ — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:35:40 +0000

Hey Marc,
Love your teaching. I have two questions on this episode. After the distilled water is used to raise the grain, what grit sandpaper did you use to knock down the grain? And lastly, when you are drilling dowel holes on both sides of the center uprights, did you have to worry about them meeting or did you have to offset the holes so they wouldn’t meet, or does it really matter? Offsetting the holes wouldn’t let the shelves be vertically aligned all the way across and I don’t know enough to know if that is something a good design is supposed to incorporate or not.

By: colegirlsdad

colegirlsdad — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:58:07 +0000

Another great episode gratz on the 100. On the wiping varnish you said to reduce it 50% with mineral spirits. Does the arm-r-seal come already reduced?