What Are Your Hobbies?

[_SteelHead]

I finally got permission (last summer) to take our oldest down the Alpine stretch of the snake ;) He enjoyed it. My raft is in ID, I am in Texas ;(

[_Jersey Girl]

My wife winces every time she sees it.

OMG, that's outstanding!

[_Quasimodo]

From Jersey Girl. Very Nice work, Jersey Girl!



Sorry, Jersey Girl. I had a phone call and it delayed the post, a little.

[_Jersey Girl]

Gryffindor for the win! :-)

Thanks, Quasi!

(Did you get the second one?)

[_ajax18]

I haven't been able to do this for a while, but my favorite hobby was to search the Mojave desert for petroglyphs in my trusty little Jeep and photograph them. I wish I was out there right now.

Here's a link to a few:

http://www.mojaveart.com/Ten%20Page/index.htm

Sounds awesome.

I just like exploring and spelunking. If I weren't worried about the safety factor, I'd like to get on a motorcycle and ride from Alaska to Patagonia. I'd follow the sun and have summer twice that year.

[_Doctor Steuss]

Check this out, Steuss. This blogger just used a new sprayer on kitchen cabinets. She shows both hand painted and sprayer pics on the page. Same color, same paint product. I think it depends what your vision and style is, but the sprayer looks really good to me!

http://www.thriftydecorchick.com/

Interresting. Almost looks like a plastic vaneer.

Here's the before and after of the bathroom cabinet. It's probably impossible to tell from the photo, but you can still see the wood grain texture, but there are no brush strokes. I used an acrylic latex (I think it was called Acryd, or something like that). I also used very thin coats -- it took about 7-8 coats to finally fully cover/coat.

[_Jersey Girl]

Check this out, Steuss. This blogger just used a new sprayer on kitchen cabinets. She shows both hand painted and sprayer pics on the page. Same color, same paint product. I think it depends what your vision and style is, but the sprayer looks really good to me!

http://www.thriftydecorchick.com/

Interresting. Almost looks like a plastic vaneer.

Here's the before and after of the bathroom cabinet. It's probably impossible to tell from the photo, but you can still see the wood grain texture, but there are no brush strokes. I used an acrylic latex (I think it was called Acryd, or something like that). I also used very thin coats -- it took about 7-8 coats to finally fully cover/coat.

That turned out great!!! Nice work!!!

[_Jersey Girl]

Oh yeah, and that sprayer/brush comparison. I don't know if I like the sprayer version. Sort of prefer the wood grain showing, I think--like an old timey farm house.

[_SteelHead]

Check this out, Steuss. This blogger just used a new sprayer on kitchen cabinets. She shows both hand painted and sprayer pics on the page. Same color, same paint product. I think it depends what your vision and style is, but the sprayer looks really good to me!

http://www.thriftydecorchick.com/

Interresting. Almost looks like a plastic vaneer.

Here's the before and after of the bathroom cabinet. It's probably impossible to tell from the photo, but you can still see the wood grain texture, but there are no brush strokes. I used an acrylic latex (I think it was called Acryd, or something like that). I also used very thin coats -- it took about 7-8 coats to finally fully cover/coat.

Looks great!

[_Doctor Steuss]

Looks great!

That turned out great!!! Nice work!!!

Thank you. :)

Now if I could only convince my wife that it actually doesn't look all that good so I can get out of doing the kitchen.

Sort of prefer the wood grain showing, I think--like an old timey farm house.

Last winter I was playing around with trying to get an old white-washed look on pine (for a park bench I built). I tried wood pickling, but didn't really like it. A slightly watered down primer seemed to work fairly well, but I almost need to darken the wood first...

Lots of fun things to experiment with in the garage now that the weather is cooling off again.