I've dones some wood furniture refinishing, but never tried carving or painting anything fancy. My work looks something like below.
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I've dones some wood furniture refinishing, but never tried carving or painting anything fancy. My work looks something like below.
So easy, sab can do it?
It's the same reason you often finish furniture before final assembly, the stain gets caught in all the corners/crevasses/dimples. For flowers or other carvings it may be desirable, on furniture and cabinets it can look lazy.
Since these are toyboxes for the kids, I use a wipe-on poly, which is very durable and safe. When I do fine furniture, I usually do hand-rubbed oil - which is a hell of a lot of work - so this is much quicker and more relaxing.
The background on the carvings naturally comes out a bit darker as the finish is not as smooth as the surrounding field. The surrounding box is machine sanded to 320 grit, but I leave the background to the carving a bit rougher. The finish penetrates the rougher surface much deeper and results in a darker appearance. When you get into higher end stuff, there is a real art to managing the surfaces for the purpose of getting the desired finish effect.
Here is a finished box which shows this a bit better. Also notice the end-grain portion of the box joints is also darker than the face grain - and for the same reason. Finish also penetrates end grain more easily than face grain. If desired, you can actually get the end grain to look the same as the face grain by sanding the end grain to a higher grit. In this case, I like the contrast.
Here's another example where the finish penetration in the background accentuates the carving.
Do you use a jig for the box joints or do them all by hand?
And in other project news, I finished up the workbench project. Added an oak trim around the maple top, and slapped on some poly.
Ya know, one day I may actually get back around to doing a Jeep project...
Ya know, one day I may actually get back around to doing a Jeep project...
At last - something TJ related:
14 Bolt R&P in da house!
Tonight, I also spoke to Carl Jantz at Rick's suggestion. He does have a load bolt setup for the 14 bolt, and I'm considering. At Carl's suggestion, I need to get some measurements to see if there is enough metal at the outside diameter of the shaved ring gear to allow clearance for the load bolt.
14 Bolt R&P in da house!
Tonight, I also spoke to Carl Jantz at Rick's suggestion. He does have a load bolt setup for the 14 bolt, and I'm considering. At Carl's suggestion, I need to get some measurements to see if there is enough metal at the outside diameter of the shaved ring gear to allow clearance for the load bolt.
Nice looking R&P.....
It definitely looks different than the Yukon.
Nice looking R&P.....
Oooooohhhhhh.... This is the new R&P! Wow - that clears things up. I thought you had picked up and put the diff on that newly finished workbench and had pulled these old gears out to confirm damage while waiting on the new ones...
I was really scratching my head about all your posts on needing to replace the gears because these look fine to run —— but I'm a newbie on gear work.
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Those are gorgeous gears! I'm popping popcorn now to watch the install.
If you're delayed, I'll repurpose the popcorn to string on the tree until you get after it.
Sucks you're going through this - hope this is the end of the troubles for your rear diff. You are impressively skilled - and I'd rather watch you work on your next amazing project vs another gear job
On a separate topic - are you taking orders for the amazing and customized toy boxes? I have a set of twins here who could use a spot to store more of their crap (toys)! Christmas will just add more from every family/friend/Santa who loves them... lol
How so? Look forward to seeing how these hold up for you.
Hopefully this is your last R&P set for a very long time.
Every surface on both the ring gear and the pinion is machined. If memory serves, there were surfaces on the Yukon stuff that were still rough cast. Not that it means anything, but it seems like more attention to detail. There are also no sharp edges - every edge is dressed. The Yukon ring gear had a bunch of sharp edges - especially where it was shaved. $1300 gear set vs $500, I guess.
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And in other project news, I finished up the workbench project. Added an oak trim around the maple top, and slapped on some poly.
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Ya know, one day I may actually get back around to doing a Jeep project...
Really nice Jeff. I've been waiting for that one. The oak trim around the maple is an unexpected treat
That's interesting. Where would you put the load bolt? I think I've only seen those on HP rear diffs.
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