Piano Bar Pt 3: Finishing the bench
Hey Reader,
I am so excited to get started on the piano bar. I found a few more pictures of finished products and I am itching to get customizing. The problem will be having the right tools. I don't have a great deal of tools yet. Building my garage work area is going to be a whole other project some time in the future, so for now I am stuck looking at pretty things online. There are worse things.
When you last saw the piano bench painted a dark gray color. I promised a complicated painting technique and I am about to deliver on that promise. I went over the bench with a much lighter gray color. It is pretty hard to tell in these pictures how much lighter it is. This is especially silly given that I have been working on this project outside. Since most of my crafting takes place after a long day of crime fighting, I find myself on my front porch in the dark.
The idea is that I paint it a light color, and then sand the surface to reveal bits of the darker color underneath. This should give it a more worn look. I might go back over it all with a rag and some watered down paint to antique some of the edges too. It seemed like a great plan until I started sanding. I quickly realized that this kind of treatment doesn't work as well with satin finish paint. I was sanding off the shiny coat before getting to the actual colors. I wound up needing a much higher grit sandpaper to get through the satin finish, and then used the lower grit to finish it off. It took significantly longer than I felt like it should have, but the final product looks great!
I reattached the hinges and tried installing the brace that would prevent the lid from being opened too far. I bought a really nice brace, but it turned out the drawer was too shallow for it to work. As the brace folded up it hit the bottom and back of the bench. It was the only brace like that in Home Depot, so I have to brainstorm another way to keep the bench from swinging open too far. I will get a short chain later.
I am really happy with the final look. I am a little worried about how much time it took, and how that will translate to an entire piano. Whatever, I am in it now!
The next part of this project is to tackle the pin block. More on what the pin block even is next week!
Keep making cool stuff.
Until next time,
JoshPrime
I am so excited to get started on the piano bar. I found a few more pictures of finished products and I am itching to get customizing. The problem will be having the right tools. I don't have a great deal of tools yet. Building my garage work area is going to be a whole other project some time in the future, so for now I am stuck looking at pretty things online. There are worse things.
When you last saw the piano bench painted a dark gray color. I promised a complicated painting technique and I am about to deliver on that promise. I went over the bench with a much lighter gray color. It is pretty hard to tell in these pictures how much lighter it is. This is especially silly given that I have been working on this project outside. Since most of my crafting takes place after a long day of crime fighting, I find myself on my front porch in the dark.
The idea is that I paint it a light color, and then sand the surface to reveal bits of the darker color underneath. This should give it a more worn look. I might go back over it all with a rag and some watered down paint to antique some of the edges too. It seemed like a great plan until I started sanding. I quickly realized that this kind of treatment doesn't work as well with satin finish paint. I was sanding off the shiny coat before getting to the actual colors. I wound up needing a much higher grit sandpaper to get through the satin finish, and then used the lower grit to finish it off. It took significantly longer than I felt like it should have, but the final product looks great!I reattached the hinges and tried installing the brace that would prevent the lid from being opened too far. I bought a really nice brace, but it turned out the drawer was too shallow for it to work. As the brace folded up it hit the bottom and back of the bench. It was the only brace like that in Home Depot, so I have to brainstorm another way to keep the bench from swinging open too far. I will get a short chain later.
I am really happy with the final look. I am a little worried about how much time it took, and how that will translate to an entire piano. Whatever, I am in it now!The next part of this project is to tackle the pin block. More on what the pin block even is next week!
Keep making cool stuff.
Until next time,
JoshPrime
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