Kirk (KC) Constable
10-02-2005, 5:55 PM
Me and a buddy share a truck when we go to the mesquite show...so LOML and I packed some stuff over to his house today for loading up Thursday. When we got there Jean noticed a big nasty on the dining table top. At first glance and from the right angle, it looks like a crack, but if you study it, looks more like a deep scratch. The 'cut' in the lacquer looks too 'clean' to be a crack...and since I use very good material, it just doesn't seem reasonable...so we musta done it sometime between the time we carried it out of our house and unloaded it over there. Although we try not to drag stuff across the blankets, sometimes we do anyway. Maybe there was something on the blanket. :(
Doesn't really make any difference WHAT happened...it's too bad to leave alone. This is the top that I worked on for probably 2 days AFTER spraying it the first time...and another day after spraying it the second time. If you overlook the single beard hair buried in an early coat :mad: , it is (was!!!) without question the finest finish I've ever put on anything. And now I have to try to fix it in two days, and preferrably one, without completely stripping it and starting over. :(
I have a good bit of lacquer on it...and it's very nearly flat (smooth)...so what I'm going to do first is SAND the entire top with 320G to see for sure whether it's a crack or 'just' a scratch. If after sanding I find that it's only a scratch, I'll shoot a bit of lacquer on the scratch, steel wool the bejeezus out of the entire top to get rid of the inevitable sanding swirlies, and see if it'll buff up again and look decent. If not, I'll spray the whole thing again and say a little prayer that the bugs and hair stay off it.
It would go without saying that this pretty well wrecked my Sunday, and certainly kills tomorrow...but I'm saying it anyway. Honestly, I almost wish we hadn't noticed it until we unloaded at the show. Obviously I woulda had to fix it at some point or knock a couple hundred bucks off the price, but now I don't have any choice other that to fix it TOMORROW.
I'm feeling quite sorry for myself, and I'd appreciate it if you folks did too. :o :rolleyes:
KC
Doesn't really make any difference WHAT happened...it's too bad to leave alone. This is the top that I worked on for probably 2 days AFTER spraying it the first time...and another day after spraying it the second time. If you overlook the single beard hair buried in an early coat :mad: , it is (was!!!) without question the finest finish I've ever put on anything. And now I have to try to fix it in two days, and preferrably one, without completely stripping it and starting over. :(
I have a good bit of lacquer on it...and it's very nearly flat (smooth)...so what I'm going to do first is SAND the entire top with 320G to see for sure whether it's a crack or 'just' a scratch. If after sanding I find that it's only a scratch, I'll shoot a bit of lacquer on the scratch, steel wool the bejeezus out of the entire top to get rid of the inevitable sanding swirlies, and see if it'll buff up again and look decent. If not, I'll spray the whole thing again and say a little prayer that the bugs and hair stay off it.
It would go without saying that this pretty well wrecked my Sunday, and certainly kills tomorrow...but I'm saying it anyway. Honestly, I almost wish we hadn't noticed it until we unloaded at the show. Obviously I woulda had to fix it at some point or knock a couple hundred bucks off the price, but now I don't have any choice other that to fix it TOMORROW.
I'm feeling quite sorry for myself, and I'd appreciate it if you folks did too. :o :rolleyes:
KC