I have a client that wants a custom vanity for her bathroom.
The cabinet is not a problem, simple box rasied panel doors. My problem is finish. She wants it painted but whats my best bet to get a finish that doesnt look like I applied it in my garage?
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Do it in your basement?
Seriously, Krylon might work out quite well for you.
I have the opposite problem. I do cabinet work, but outsource everything and make nothing. My door suppliers make exquisite product, and ship everything to me prefinished. I tried to get work from a client that builds very expensive ($475/sf and up) Adirondack great camp compounds for the rich and famous.
Everything in them must look antique and old and worn out. My sources (Conestoga, Walzcraft) do all kinds of distressed and rubthrough and flyspecked and dusted finishes and combinations thereof, but when the client saw the samples, he said they looked "too factory."
So I am now thinking that hand-brushed finishes, done in the garage, might work.
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"A stripe is just as real as a dadgummed flower."
Gene Davis 1920-1985
I was thinking about trying plain old spray paint. Its a 54"x21"x30" vanity that will have three sets of drawers / doors. I'll be using (porbably) Poplar for the face, MDF for the raised panels and some birch 3/4" plywood for the case.
The reason i'm using 3/4" for the box is that they wnat this cabinet to appear as though its floating about 4" off the ground. I will probably just cleat along the back and side wall to achieve this.
Clear or painted? Either way, for a small thing, you could brush, roll or spray it over primer, then work your way through hand wet sanding from 400 though maybe 1500, and it would be like glass.
Good enough for my car.
Forrest
As of now its gonna be painted but you know HO's. If I can just wet sand between coats that should be cool. Thanks we'll see how it goes.
Here is wet-sanded, brush-painted Rustoleum.
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Forrest
Edited 6/29/2008 5:10 pm ET by McDesign
Awesome. How many coats?
Maybe two or three, thinned a bit with acetone. That pieceis not waxed or wet - no rubbing compound even. Went up to 1500 paper, I think.
Rustoleum now has a pretty pale gray enamel primer I use first.
Forrest
Thanks.