jeffb418
Well-Known Member
I added a group at the end for people who are picking up their own and not participating in a organized pick up with a single buyer.
I put you under the Buffalo, NY location on Jeff's sheet, right now you are listed as the driver, but we can update as well.
I also put myself as the driver for Elmira area pick up (which right now is for Mparsons, dbennett78 (please confirm)) Mparsons will pick up the grain from me and take the rest down for dbennett78 as I understand it.
I would suggest everyone putting their name on the sheet, even if you are picking up for yourself alone. This will let us know how many pick ups we should expect. Jeff you think that is a good way to do it? Or maybe put in a place indicating "single pick up" and destination. This may also promote people in similar areas to join up and save on gas for transport.
I am also assuming that CBK, rustbucket, erikrocks, westo2 and jbsengineer are not in on this buy as of this moment? I don't see them signed up for anything. I know rust said that he might be in, but isn't sure yet. If you guys are for sure in on the buy let Jeff know. Thanks!
lastly:
I used pine on mine just because of cost. Anyway, you can do a couple things to make it look much nicer. You can use a treatment (minwax sells it) that is water based and basically helps clog up the pores of the wood and make pine stain in a more uniform fashion.
An easier way to do it IMO, is to buy some of the minwax prestain colored poly (polyshades). The stuff works great even on pine, just follow the surface prep application (light uniform sanding) and in between coats gently scuff up the surface with 000 steel wool (clean off by dipping a rag in mineral spirits and wiping the filings off) so the second and third coat adhere to the preceding coat. I used it for my home bar (tongue and groove) and my keezer. Unfortunately I don't have great pics of either in my gallery, but it is uniform in coating. In my gallery you will see a couple decent shots of the inside of the keezer, however i just slopped it on in there so it was water tight, so you won't see craftsmanship on that coat application
I hate painting and putting coatings on of anything, but this stuff at least comes out good pretty consistently IME.