Erik Christensen
11-27-2010, 8:05 AM
I am about to start on some big (for me) cabinet projects and wanted to be able to be a bit more productive when finishing the doors & drawer fronts. Until now I have been putting them in the driveway on scrap 2x’s; but that does take some momentum out of the spray production to hoof each part out into the driveway and carefully bend over on 60 year old knees.
I saw a commercial drying rack at the place where I buy a lot of my hardwood and thought “that’s what I need right there” but I balked at the price – figured I could make one myself for a lot less. True – if I place zero value on my own time. My only other requirement was that I could break it down to store – my other reason for avoiding the commercial rack was not wanting to give up that much shop space for something that did not get used that often.
Arms are rebar – bought from the BORG in 10’ sections & cut with an angle grinder on the tailgate of my truck keeping metal mess out of the shop. I painted them black because that was the spray color I was using at the time. The frame is 2x6 pine from the BORG – a PITA to drill because it was so wet and sprayed with latex with my AAA gun. My first use of that AAA rig for latex – a bit of a learning curve as I have used an HVLP turbine gun for 20 years but only for light finishes. The guys at Graco claimed I could get as fine a finish with latex as I could with water poly - I thought it a bit of sales hype but I can see that with a bit more practice that is entirely possible. I am stoked at the new finishing possibilities this now available with my new tool. Woodcraft was having a sale on their nice locking casters with free shipping so that is what I used.
I saw a commercial drying rack at the place where I buy a lot of my hardwood and thought “that’s what I need right there” but I balked at the price – figured I could make one myself for a lot less. True – if I place zero value on my own time. My only other requirement was that I could break it down to store – my other reason for avoiding the commercial rack was not wanting to give up that much shop space for something that did not get used that often.
Arms are rebar – bought from the BORG in 10’ sections & cut with an angle grinder on the tailgate of my truck keeping metal mess out of the shop. I painted them black because that was the spray color I was using at the time. The frame is 2x6 pine from the BORG – a PITA to drill because it was so wet and sprayed with latex with my AAA gun. My first use of that AAA rig for latex – a bit of a learning curve as I have used an HVLP turbine gun for 20 years but only for light finishes. The guys at Graco claimed I could get as fine a finish with latex as I could with water poly - I thought it a bit of sales hype but I can see that with a bit more practice that is entirely possible. I am stoked at the new finishing possibilities this now available with my new tool. Woodcraft was having a sale on their nice locking casters with free shipping so that is what I used.