What a nice progress, Henk. With the waterways very tight around the stanchions. The nibbled strips with their black sides also look neat. I'm curious how the Abachi will show.
Regards, Peter
Regards, Peter
Abachi is a beautiful wood to work with and gives a very realistic natural and subtle look - so I'm looking forward to see the results.I will now first plank the front deck with Abachi 1x3 slats and treat the sides with black Ecoline
ThanxsWhat a wonderful progress
Henk, my deep respect for your post.Most of the time your successes are shown but I don't think there's anything wrong with sharing your mistakes as well
For education and entertainment ..
Kudos for sharing!My Ecoline experiment
Ecoline applied to the sides of the deck beams (batten Abachi 1x3 mm) in such a way that only the sides of the Ecoline could be seen, and no Ecoline could be seen on top of the deck to simulate deck seams. is left, after the remaining deck beams had already been removed.
Due to the action of the wood glue, this already gave stains on the deck, which was aggravated by light wood stain.
I had already seen some examples on the forum of deck beams that were treated with Ecoline, so I thought that would be fine
I had already treated all stock battens with Ecoline, so I won't be using them again
On the right the custom-made slats, sanded and no stain applied, on the left the combination a little too much glue with a color of stain
Nice to know what I had made all the slats to size and only had to glue them
With the color stain I wanted to apply the color like the sides
Ordered another slat in the meantime
Most of the time your successes are shown but I don't think there's anything wrong with sharing your mistakes as well
For education and entertainment ..
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I have had good luck with graphite or charcoal for edging planks. Then the stain will accent it further.Thanks Dean,
Every disadvantage has an advantage see a famous football player once
It has given me different insights on how I plan the deck differently
I am lucky that I can get on my bike and after 10 minutes can order slats again which already in 4 working days were already there
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New rounds new opportunities
Regards
Henk
Thanx HeinrichWell done Henk!
No reason to worry DeanYou will need to make a square mast base