Help needed with painting cherry

[Scott Loven]

I have a few hundred bf of cherry that has been sitting around my garage for a few years that my wife wants me to do something with. I was going to burn it but decided to just continue burning that funny looking maple that my wife thinks looks kind of like a quilt. Anyway I have been racking my brain when the idea came to me that I could make a bunch of those lawn cut-outs and paint them and sell them at flea markets and such. So what do you guys recommend, should I prime the cherry first, or just paint it straight off? Any other ideas of what I could do with it? Anyone need one of those old ladies bending over for your lawn, I should have a bunch of them made by this weekend!
Scott

[Richard Wolf]

Ofcourse this must be a joke, right. If you are not going to use the cherry wisely, at least sell it and buy a ton of MDO to make all the lawn junk that you want.
The quilted maple was also a joke, right????

Richard

[Jim Becker]

AAAAAaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Anybody know how to do self-CPR?

[Byron Trantham]

I suggest you exercise a "stay of execution" as I am SURE there are those of us who may live close to you and would LOVE to remove your burden!

[Bob Yarbrough]

I'd make the trip down from Stillwater for a good score on some cherry! :D

[Chris Daigh]

Scott you sure have a twisted mind. I thought I was going to get sick. Theres just no way anyone has ever painted cherry is there. I'm thinking no one ever, ever has painted cherry. I see your from Decorah. I went to Simpson College in Indianola and ran a few cross-country races up there. Very nice area for Iowa.

[Ken Shoemaker]

I have an idea.... Play a joke on a guy... Ship all that cherry to him without telling him... Think the suprised look on his face... my address is.......

[Joanne Adler]

Paint cherry? You DO realize that April Fool's Day isn't until tomorrow, right?

[Doug Shepard]

:eek: Philistine!! Blasphemer!! Heretic!!:eek: :eek:

I'm gonna say a prayer for your wood tonight.:D

[Corey Hallagan]

Hi Scott, just put 2 and 2 together... your the guy I just bought my Kreg Pro Pack, videos etc. from this last weekend on ebay. Didnt realize you were at the Creek here!
Like the others say, your kidding on the cherry stock right?

Corey

[david hines]

i heard that wall mart paint is the best there is. You dont even have to sand or prime. It will cover in 1 coat and they have lots of colors.

[David Fried]

In the old days you'd be linseed oiled and feathered and run out of the shop on a fence rail!

Of course, we're much more civilized now. ;)

[Per Swenson]

The fastest most economical way to paint
your scrap lumber is to use the tool shown below.
It so happens that we have one just like it for sale.
I will even throw in 550 gallons of both
yellow and white, if it helps close the deal.
You can lay your boards end to end and do them all at once!
Guarranteed impervious.
Allow me to fax you a contract.
Per

[Roger Myers]

just checked my watch and the SMC clock....no, it's not April 1st yet...must be some other rational explanation....hmmmmmm

[Alan Tolchinsky]

Not really; it would ruin his new sandpaper.

[Richard Wolf]

I bet those old ladies bending over will go real well with the plastic pink flamingos on your front lawn and the couch on your porch.

Richard

[Jerry Olexa]

Surely, you jest!! I would cringe if you painted over cherry!:) :D I assume you're being humorous.

[Bill Arnold]

April Fool!!!

[Scott Loven]

Ya, I am kidding about the cherry, I do have about 350 BF of it that has been sitting in my garage for two years drying. Some of it is from a tree in my yard that died and I cut down. I hauled six 6-8foot logs to a local guy that has a bandsaw mill. I got about 150 bf of cherry for my efforts He cut it for me for $.15 a bf. He also had about 200bf of cherry that he was drying that he sold to me for $.60 a bf. He also had around 300bf of walnut that he wanted $1.50 a bf for. He would only sell it as a lot and I didnt want to tie-up a lot of cash. It was gone when I went back a few days later to pick up the cherry.
Scott

[Per Swenson]

I suppose you won't be needing our painting
equipment. I will foward our information packet
in case you need our services in the future.
Maybe if we throw in 1100 gallons?
Per

[Keith Christopher]

This HAS to be an april fools joke. Oh the humanity ! My poor giddy heart.



Keith

[Dick Latshaw]

Anyway I have been racking my brain when the idea came to me that I could make a bunch of those lawn cut-outs and paint them and sell them at flea markets and such.

Hey Scott -

If those lawn things are going to sit around outdoors, you probably don't want to paint them. Just get some of that dark walnut stain like Norm uses, smear some all over, and then give them about five coats of high gloss polyurethane. Should hold up just fine and those flea market people really like that glossy finish.

Dick