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Volume 1:
With these DVDs you will discover how easy it is to finish or refinish your furniture to get exactly the look you want.
After watching one of these videos
* Your wood finishes will look deeper and feel smoother.
* Your painted and decorative finishes will glow with more life and richness of color.
* You will have more fun with finishing than you have ever had before. (Really!)
What makes these videos different from all the others? The biggest single difference is that these give you everything you need to know to get perfect results. You'll get the how-to and the why-to!
Introduction- initial explanations of: sandpapers, sanding blocks and power sanders, dustmasks and respirators, paint and varnish brushes for water and oil-based products.
Ingredients of paints and varnishes, their composition and terminology
First demonstration: Wipe-on Oil with Wax Finish. We use a child's oak chair that has been stripped of its old finish and then apply several coats of oil to accentuate its golden tones. The final surface is buffed with steel wool and wax for an easy, soft, and natural look.
Description of wiping oils; linseed, tung, synthetic. Products and materials demonstrated include foam brushes, wet-or-dry sandpaper, steel wool, and paste wax.
Second demonstration: shellac A jewelry box of birdseye maple is given several coats of fast-drying shellac while demonstrating flowing brush style and wet sanding. The result is a fast, and easy-to-obtain film finish that beautifully displays the wood's figuring.
Description of white (clear) and orange (amber) shellacs and their uses. Products and materials demonstrated also include water-based wood putty, artist's palette knife, masking tape tips, tack rags, wet brush storage, sanding sponges and sanding blocks.
Third demonstration: stain, wood filler, and varnish. A pair of mahogany chests are used to demonstrate the use of wood stains, wood filler, and oil-based varnishes. This very traditional application of products is a great showcase for brush handling, the differences between dry and wet sanding, and in the difference in the appearance of a hand-rubbed satin finish versus satin (in the can) varnish. The look is luscious, both visually, and to touch. Descriptions of wood stains, paste wood filler, and alkyd varnishes. Additional products used are solvent-based wood putties.
Fourth demonstration: latex and acrylic. A previously finished (translate: bought at a garage sale) chest of drawers is painted, antiqued, and given a top of painted faux marble. This is a rapidly moving, fun demonstration of what can be done in a couple of hours to create a lovely, useful piece from an ugly beginning. Lots of products and techniques are shown here, including: different kinds of surface prep (sanding vs. chemical etching), primers, primer/sealers, masking, paint sheens, glazes and glazing, sponges, feathers, spattering, pastels, color mixing, acrylic varnishes, and "positive" style faux marble.
Fifth demonstration: oriental lacquer-look, faux "negative" style marble. The funky project of the video, a pair of bedside chests are used to show a rub-through technique that imitates lacquer on its sides, with a faux marble top done in a "negative" style. Additional techniques shown here include toning glaze, stippling, and softening.
(about 150 minutes)
An explanation of melamine coated boards for sample-making .
First demonstration: faux granite. Faux granite is an easy and fast finish in oil or water-based materials. Its sponge techniques also are used as the basis for many faux marbles, and for sponge-painted walls. Includes sponge preparation, how to choose and mix colors for realistic effects (and how to change that for fantasy colors), and the order of application.
Second demonstration: porcelain crackle, or cracquelure. A picture frame with mirror is used to show the application of these products which produce a delicate network of cracks for an easy, fast, and beautiful effect. This crackle, as well as the peeling paint effect in the next demonstration can be used in selected areas of larger projects for an antique effect.
Third demonstration: crackle, or peeling paint. This is a different effect than the one above, this is more of a two-tone look where a base-coat color shows through a cracked top-coat. This can also be a subtle look like the porcelain crackle, or, can be much more bold. The differences are well detailed on the demonstration. Again, a very fast and easy effect that can be wonderful, especially when combined with other techniques like antiquing, pinstriping, stenciling, etc. Also shown here: physical distressing, and the use of rottenstone for antiquing.
Fourth demonstration: pinstriping, dragging, and stenciling. This is a great demonstration where an ugly dark pine chest of drawers is refinished with a light base coat, then gets combed on its sides, pinstriped on the front and top, and stenciled. This is a real trash into treasure result done in water-based materials that was a lot of fun. Tools and techniques used here include: masking and pinstriping tapes, sword stripers and liner brushes, combs, single and multiple stencils, stencil brushes and materials.
Fifth demonstration: floating faux marbles. Three styles of painted faux marbles are shown: positive, negative, and combination. Most viewers will be amazed with the options available, -even many professionals are unfamiliar with these techniques. The results are beautiful, with an incredible depth of translucency and color. Assorted tools and techniques are shown here, as well as the ideal surface for floated finishes.
Sixth demonstration: faux tortoise-shell. Tortoise-shell is an elegant, but simple variation of a floated finish like the faux marbles above, ideally suited for small objects. This example uses typical colors, and mentions other variations.
Seventh demonstration: Rubbing and polishing finish coats. The mahogany chests that were varnished in Volume 1 are treated to the ultimate look in the world of finishes. Taken through successively finer steps, the results are a sumptuous smoothness, gloss, and depth. This is the perfect final look for a polished faux finish or to show off the color and figure work of any wood. It is neither difficult nor expensive to do, and takes much less time than most people would think. Demonstrated are the differences in different gloss levels and fine grit sandpapers, pumice, rottenstone, rubbing and polishing compounds.
Closing: Words of wisdom (?) A finished piece is shown as an example of several different looks, and how to put your own looks together. After nearly five hours of instruction and example on these videos, viewers will have more knowledge and information than many week-long seminars or schools that are offered. (And they can use the Pause and Rewind buttons!)
(about 150 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on June 08, 2005 in Woodworking::Furniture Making.
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The description of these DVD's on the main page should give you some clue that these DVD's are jammed packed with Finishing information. From staining to faux painting it has it all. I highly recommended the two DVD's if you are interested in the topic
Good information. However, the delivery is not very good. The instructor seems very conscious and that makes it a bit hard to follow.
Very informative but very monotone. I learned a lot but fell asleep a few times.
