the doors episode vii: Strange Days I shot a tiny bit of video during the project… I shared one of these already, but maybe you’d like to see the others. I’d like to find a way to hold the phone steady and keep the button mashed down, while using both my hands to do something …
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the doors
the doors episode vi: The End. With just less than a week until Ramadan, Allah enabled me to finish with the doors. As in episode v, I started by lightly sanding, then wiping down the doors, before adding a third and final coat of varnish. From a distance, they look good. Alhamdulillah. But don’t look …
Tea Time (2)
Tea Time (2). Testing the new “Intensity Control(tm)” slider in Cinamatic. This is the Bennet filter at 8 (of 9). Filters appear to start out at level 7, so you can push them up a bit if you want (and as I’ve done here). The intensity slider is part of a new update (v. 1.1) …
the doors
the doors episode v: the Varnishing… After a week of curing the stain, I ended up with another day off due to overwork, and so dug into the final stage(s): the Varnishing. Friday morning (June 20), after Fajr and some time with the Quran, I cleaned the doors with mineral spirits (again; not pictured), and …
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July 14 marked a turning point… we were finally going to start getting somewhere. the doors episode iv: sometimes a little stain is a good thing First, as it had been a week since the doors had seen any action, I Dyson-ed, then wiped down the doors with mineral spirits (and none of that synthetic …
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the doors episode iii: sanding continues…
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the doors episode ii: in which we bring out the big guns… So after two disappointing days with the stripper (aren’t they all?), and after consultation with Alex,*I returned to the home improvement center yet again, and picked up something I had wanted since I was a painting student: a corner cat power sander. It …
